CFP: EDWIDGE DANTICAT SOCIETY
AT ALA
(SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 24-27, 2018)
DEADLINE EXTENDED
The Edwidge Danticat Society invites proposals for 15-minute presentations, and possible topics addressing her overall work include, but are not limited to:
- Danticat’s cultural commentary on global anti-blackness
- Ecocriticism in her literature
- Criticism on Migration and the Immigration Industrial Complex
- Creating Dangerously through reading and writing
- Black Lives Matter Movement and Immigrants of Color
- Poto Mitan: Haitian women, work and resistance
- Memory, Counter-archiving and the Trujillo and/or Duvalier dictatorships
By January 15, 2018, please submit a 150-word biography, 300-word abstract (including working title) and any a/v needs to Megan Feifer, megan.feifer@edwidgedanticatsociety.org.
Membership with the Edwidge Danticat Society ( http://www.edwidgedanticatsociety.org) is required for panelists, but it is not required to submit proposals for consideration.
Membership dues to the Edwidge Danticat Society ( http://www.edwidgedanticatsociety.org ) and ALA conference registration ( http://www.americanliteratureassociation.org ) must be paid by April 15, 2018, or papers/panels will not appear in the conference program.