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Call For Papers

“CARIBBEAN UNBOUND IV:
Re-Conceiving Hispaniola”

Re-Conceiving Hispaniola

Franklin College Conference on Caribbean Literature and Culture Keynote

Speaker: Jean-Claude Fignolé, Novelist & Mayor of Les Abricots, Haiti

CALL FOR PAPERS

Possible panel topics:

Fignolé’s Fiction / Danticat’s Haiti/ The Caribbean Renaissance in New York / Artistic Representation of Dominican and Haitian Women / Junot Díaz: Language and Fiction / Duvalier & Trujillo: Literary Representations of Dictatorship / Comparative Caribbean Literature / Conceptions of Haiti (Dominican Republic) in American Literature / Caribbean Cinema & Films about the Caribbean / Tomás Gutiérrez Alea/ Agnant and Chancy / Caribbean Performance: Theater, Dance & Music / The Foreigner(European) in Haitian & Dominican Literature / Travel and Return Travel Writing / Caribbean Poetry / Race & Gender: Haiti & the Dominican Republic / Ambiguities of Race, Class and Gender / Literary Movements: Indigenism, Négritude, Spiralism and Magical Realism/ Chamoiseau & Contemporary Martinican Fiction/Haitian & Dominican Characters in Créolité Literature / Conflicting Nationalisms in Haiti and the Dominican Republic / Women Voicing Haitian Realities / Literary Depictions of the Haitian Revolution / Politics through Literature / U.S. Foreign Policy with respect to the Dominican Republic and Haiti/ Comparative Religious Beliefs: Haiti and the Dominican Republic (in conjunction with “Il Museo delle Culture Extraeuropee” in Lugano) / Caribbean Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Deren & Jacques Roumain/ Témoinages (Recounting Personal Experience) / The Trauma of Repressed History / Dominicans and Haitians in Switzerland.

DEADLINE for Proposals: submit panel and/or presentation proposals
with a 15 line abstract (via Word attachment ) by September 30, 2008.

Thursday evening, April 2nd – Saturday, April 4, 2009

Location: Franklin College Switzerland Via Ponte Tresa 29, 6924 Sorengo (Lugano), Switzerland Tel: +41 91 985 22 60 Fax: +41 91 994 41 17

Fees for Registration: 115 Swiss Francs (50 sfr. for students), which include a Caribbean dinner prepared by Franklin College students and staff as well as live Cuban music)

For further information contact Prof. Robert H. McCormick, Jr. - Tel. +41.91.986.36.31.

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