Date: Fri, 04 Sep 98 12:39:22 PDT


CALL FOR PAPERS 		JOURNAL OF CARIBBEAN LITERATURES

The Caribbean that is?

	The articles selected for "The Caribbean that is?" will provide a response
to "The Caribbean that isn't?" and argue in favor of a common Caribbean
heritage through intertextual readings of Caribbean literary and
theoretical texts. Given the current organization of university departments
along linguistic lines, researchers are enticed to specialize in one
linguistic sphere and seldom encouraged to engage into intertextual
readings beyond the literature produced in their language of expertise.
Such an approach underlines the difficulties inherent in shaking the
(post)-colonial yoke. The articles selected for "The Caribbean that is?"
will adopt an intertextual approach to Caribbean literature and critical
theory and strive to demonstrate the existence of a common cultural
heritage within the Caribbean Basin. 
	The articles selected will deal with two or more Caribbean authors writing
in different languages and will present "The Caribbean that is", a region
where novelists, playwrights, poets and theorists transcend political and
linguistic barriers to inscribe their common vision of Caribbeanity.  
	Please submit a 500-word proposal in English by October 30, 1998 to:
	Pascale De Souza, 
	Language Studies Center, 
	SAIS- Johns Hopkins University,
	17 40 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
	Washington DC 20036
	fax:  (202) 663-5764 
	e-mail: desouza-AT-comm-plus.net


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