Call for Papers: "Routes, Roots, and Ruts: Claude McKay and the New
Black Transnationalism"
Deadline: December 31, 2002
I plan on proposing a panel titled "Routes, Roots, and Ruts: Claude
McKay and the New Black Transnationalism" for "Violence and Belonging,"
the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in Hartford,
Connecticut, October 16-19, 2003. Papers may address any aspect of
McKay studies, though the aim of the panel is not only to present new
approaches to McKay, but new approaches that use McKay to consider how
recent visions of the Black Atlantic/Black transnationalism might
themselves be rethought. The following is not so much a list of
possible topics as it is a register meant to provoke ideas, to provoke
counterpoint, or simply to provoke:
We Wander as We Wonder: McKay and Postcolonial Studies
Roots and Ruts: McKay and Black Diaspora/Africana Studies
Marooned in the Black Atlantic: McKayâ??s Countercultural Modernism or
Modern Mal de mer?
Transnationalism, Internationalism, and McKay: Black Literary Studies
and Routes Retraced
William J. Maxwell, author of New Negro, Old Left: African-American
Writing and Communism Between the Wars (Columbia UP, 1999), will serve
as chair and commentator.
Send abstracts and inquiries to
Gary Holcomb
Asst. Prof. of English
English Department
Campus Box 4019
Emporia State University
1200 Commercial
Emporia, KS 66801-5087
Fax: (620) 341-5547
Telephone: (620) 341-5557
Or, preferably, send via email attached Word RTF document:
holcombg@emporia.edu
I welcome inquiries, whether by email or otherwise.
Gary Holcomb
Assistant Professor of English
English Department
Campus Box 4019
Emporia State University
1200 Commercial
Emporia, KS 66801-5087
Phone: (620) 341-5557
Fax: (620) 341-5547
Email: holcombg@emporia.edu
Home page:
http://www.emporia.edu/english/holcomb/
Emporia Peace Project:
http://www.angelfire.com/pe2/peaceproject/
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