American Women Writers of Color Conference
October 19-21, 2001, Carousel Hotel, Ocean City, MD
Call for Papers
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: American Women Writers of Color in the
21st Century
Scholarship on: African American, Asian American, Hispanic/Latina and
Native American Women Writers in the U.S.
Plenary Session featuring:
Mary Helen Washington, specialist in African American Literature
University of Maryland, College Park
Eliana Rivero, specialist in U.S. Latina Literature
University of Arizona
and other scholars
We invite individual, panel and round table submissions that reassess the
literature by and scholarship on American women writers of color, or
papers that focus on the new directions this literature/scholarship may
take in the 21st century.
Novels, Short Fiction,
Memoirs, Autobiography
Dramas, Performance Artists, Emerging and Established Theater Groups
Storytelling & Poetry
Literary and Critical Theory: Women Theorists of Color
Cinema & Video: Films by Women of Color
In addition to those listed above, we especially welcome panels or papers
that (1) treat the work of American women writers of color from a
transnational or post-colonial perspective, (2) focus upon the
intersections of race, class, sexuality, and/or gender, (3) or approach
this work from a womanist or mujerista perspective.
Please include the following information with your proposal:
Name, phone number for work and home, home mailing address, university
affiliation & status: full-time, part-time faculty, graduate student
Send one-page individual/panel abstracts via e-mail or surface mail by
July 15, 2001, to:
Professor Connie Richards
Department of English
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury University
Salisbury, MD 21801-2142
E-mail: awwoc@ssu.edu
For further information on the American Women Writers of Color Conference
see our Web site at: www.ssu.edu/Schools/Fulton/English/awwoc.htm
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