Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention 2015 Call for Papers Toronto, Ontario - April 30-May 3, 2015 The 46th Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014 https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html (Look under ‘Anglophone’ to submit to all 3 abstracts) Revisiting the Idea of a ‘Black’ British Aesthetics Does it still make sense to attempt to define a ‘Black’ British Aesthetics? A younger generation of writers seems to be (re)creating identity within more global paradigms. Some recent texts move from one culture to another, allowing for a more fluid, transnational and transcultural model for both the production and consumption of art. It’s almost ten years since the groundbreaking Conference at Howard University, so it is time to engage such questions again—and, hopefully, think of new ones. Chair: Maria Helena Lima Neo-Slave Narratives as Witnessing Since the last decades of the twentieth century, writers across the African Diaspora have attempted to recover elements of the narrative structure and thematic configuration of slave narratives. This panel seeks to bring together scholarship on contemporary neo-slave narratives in varied forms that ultimately challenge the conventions of the genre. Submit 300-word abstracts to Maria Helena Lima. Chair: Maria Helena Lima Writing Black/Writing British The panel invites the rethinking of ‘British’ by focusing on the literary contributions of contemporary Asian-, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British writers. While recent critical attention has focused on some aspects of ‘Black’ British writing, much too often the attention has been restricted to a few spectacularly successful writers such as Zadie Smith or Andrea Levy. The aim of the panel is to look more broadly at the contemporary literary scene in order to assess what it means when one is simultaneously writing black and writing British. Chair: Modhumita Roy
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