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Call for Papers, Special issue of Gender Forum
Guest ed. Sabine Broeck, University of Bremen
Black Women's Writing Revisited: Womanism, Black
Consciousness, and Postcolonial Connections
The special issue means to address a number of
literary, essayistic and political texts by
influential black women writers such as Audre Lorde,
Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni
Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Barbara Christian, Hortense
Spiller, Ntozake Shange, and Michelle Cliff. After a
short heyday of public attention in the late 1980s and
early 1990s, these writers have disappeared into
teaching canons of "Multicultural USA", or "Writing
and Gender in the US", or - outside the US - of the
only occasionally taught Black Studies seminar. Over
the last years, they have not received the critical
attention necessary to mediate the brilliancy of their
aesthetic and epistemological cultural-political
interventions intothe scene of feminism and gender
studies, the black movement, multiculturalism, and
postcolonial debates to generations of scholars who
did not immediately witness their immense bestseller
popularity. Our special issue will answer to this need
for reconsideration. Moreover, there are many recent,
and younger, writers and thinkers (for example, Kesho
Yvonne Scott, Tina McElroy, Olympia Vernon, Bebe Moore
Campbell, Jewelle Gomez, Elisabeth Alexander, Michelle
Wright) whose work can be addressed as being in
dialogue with, and yet transcending, the work of those
earlier writers in terms of their aesthetics, as well
as of the issues they raise.
We welcome single author studies, comparative
approaches, and theoretical contributions, as well as
reviews of recent publications on this issue.
Abstracts and completed manuscripts should be
submitted via email to
broeck@???. The deadline for abstracts is
June 15th, 2007.
Completed articles must be received by September 14th,
2007.
Articles and reviews should conform to the "gender
forum" style sheet
(available for download at
http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/stylesheet.pdf).
Articles should not
exceed 8,000 words in length; reviews should be
limited to approximately 1,500 words. Please include
a bio-blurb of 5-10 lines and an abstract of
10-15 lines. Use endnotes and fully documented
references at the end of the article. For further
information, visit our homepage at
http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de or contact us via
email.
Professor Dr. Sabine Broeck
Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck
American Studies
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften - FB 10
Universität Bremen
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