Call for Papers
Alternative Modernities in African Literatures and Cultures
Special Issue of the Journal of Literary Studies, University of South Africa
Papers are invited for a special issue of the JLS that broadly address the
topic of African literatures and cultures in relation to modernity and its
alternatives. The postmodern critiques of modernity and the blossoming of
postmodern forms in literature and culture have lead to a revisiting of
modernity. Paul Gilroy's paradigm constituting "The Black Atlantic", Stuart
Hall's (et al) "Modernity" and Ntongela Masilela's recent "Black Modernity"
grapple with ways in which modernity has constituted both a source of
exploitation and hope for Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora. The
JLS special issue seeks to explore this dialectic in (Southern) African
culture. Papers (suggested length: 3000-5000 words) could address any of the
following broad areas:
· Alternative African modernities to European modernity and postmodernism
· Southern African literature and culture since the Mandela republic
· South-, North-, and Transatlantic: encounters and influences of modernity
· Liberation, nationalism and internationalism
· Re-readings of history, historiography, genre and aesthetics in
postcolonial Africa
· The African Renaissance, ubuntu and African humanism
· Multiple jeopardy and post/modern identities
Please submit the paper, or an outline of approximately 500 words, along
with a short biographical sketch by 31 August 2001 to
Thomas Olver (olver@es.unizh.ch) and Stephan Meyer (sdmeyer@bluemail.ch)
Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any enquiries in this
regard.
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