CFP: [Collections] Achy Obejas, Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Zoé Valdés (Book Publication)

Call for Submissions: Edited Collection

Voces Caribeñas: Literature of Exile and (Im)migration from the Islands
to the Diasporas

We are looking for one to two additional essays to complete an edited
collection that examines the experiences and contributions of Spanish
Caribbean writers who have left their hometowns and native lands to live,
write, and/or work abroad. We seek book chapters (of approximately 20
pages) on any of the following post-1959 exiled Cuban authors: Achy
Obejas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, or Zoé Valdés.
Comparative chapters are also welcome. (Please note we already have
accepted contributions on José Martí, Alejo Carpentier, Virgilio Piñera,
and Cristina Garcia.)

Relevant papers will explore how the condition of exile (or immigration)
or the experience of being part of the Cuban diaspora has affected the
author and informed his/her literary works and the themes addressed
therein.

Some of the questions that underpin the volume include:

• How has living abroad informed the writer’s creative processes?
• How do authors theorize about movement, displacement, or
dislocation?
• What contact has the writer had with other authors while abroad?
Did he or she participate in foreign or native literary movements,
artistic circles, and/or creative trends?
• How is the literature written by those authors received abroad
and at home? Are there important differences in reception?
• Does time abroad lead writers to reject or to embrace foreign,
hegemonic ideologies and literary forms?
• Does time abroad lead authors to revive local and regional
aspects of (Spanish) Caribbean (or Latin American) culture so as to
distinguish it from foreign models?
• Does time abroad raise concerns of authority and authenticity
among readers at home and/or in the host culture?
• How does the writer address and/or overcome the “anxiety of
influence” that can result from living abroad?
• How does the condition of exile or (im)migration inform the
literature of Spanish Caribbean authors and what distinctions should be
made between these “conditions?”
• What are the effects the processes of (1) exile and return, (2)
permanent exile and foreign assimilation, (3) migration and return, or
(4) immigration and foreign assimilation on the development of Spanish
Caribbean (or Latin American) literature?
• What considerations and distinctions need to be taken into
account when examining the Spanish Caribbean diasporas and its literary
and cultural manifestations?

Please submit a complete draft of your essay and a brief CV by November
1, 2007 as two separate Word documents in an E-mail attachment to
voicesfromabroad_at_yahoo.com . Essays should follow MLA style guidelines
and include parenthetical references for citations, endnotes, and works
cited pages. Papers must be written in English, but all Spanish citations
should be quoted in the original language (rather than in English
translation). Do not hesitate to contact the editors, Kelly Comfort and
Vanessa Pérez, by E-mail if you have questions about the relevance of
your potential contribution.

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