Membership
Pre-registration
Convention Location/Hotel
Host Committee:
Dr. Régine Latortue & Dr. George Cunningham
Department of Africana Studies
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Telephone: 718.951-5597/98 (o); Fax: 718.951-4707
email: regine@brooklyn.cuny.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
SEVENTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION
&
SEVENTY-Third ANNIVERSARY
of the
COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
April 7-10, 2010
Brooklyn , NY
"Freedom’s Visions and Urban Landscapes: Spaces and Places in Language and Literature"
hosted by
Brooklyn College / CUNY
Paper, Panel, and Workshop Proposals:
“northward and cityward”: Re-reading Literature
of the Great Migration
The City in Literatures of Exile
Urban Folklore in Contemporary Texts
Urban Imaging and the Language of Resistance
Urbanity and Migration in Pan-African and Diasporan Writing
Globalization and Urbanization in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures
Radical and New Urban Theory and the African Diasporan Text
Hip-Hop and the Urban Cultural Expression in Literary Movements
Technological and/or Green Strategic Approaches in Hispanic Literature
Latino Literatures and Hispanic Urban Identity in the United States
Mapping Urban Spaces in the Literary Imagination
Cultural and Spiritual Memory and the Urban Landscape
Utopian/Dystopian Visions of Urban Landscapes
Economies of the City in the Literary Imagination
Immigrant Visions and Urban Texts: New American Writing in the 21st Century
Old Spaces; New Considerations: Revisiting Metropoles in Post-Modern Writing
Canaan Land Revisited: Reading the Migration Narrative in the 21st Century
Gendered Spaces and Places: Discourse(s) of the Urban Landscape
Urban Language(s) and the Literary Imagination
Material Culture and Urban Life in the Literary Imagination
Diasporic Consciousness and Urban Landscapes
The City and Urban Space in Francophone Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
The City and Urban Space in Hispanophone Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Send brief biography (3-5 lines), paper abstract (300-400 words), and/or panel
proposals to the appropriate representative. Send special session proposals
with paper abstracts and biographical sketches to the Program Chair.
Deadline: September 15, 2009.
| Carol Marsh-Lockett, English Area Representative Department of English 38 Peachtree Center Ave. Suite 923 Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303 404-413-5851 (office) 404-413-5830 (fax) engcml@langate.gsu.edu |
Mario A. Chandler, Foreign Language Representative Oglethorpe University 4484 Peachtree Rd., N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30319 404-364-8382 (office) 678-698-4312 (cell) 404-228-2562 (fax) mchandler@oglethorpe.edu |
Dr. Warren J. Carson |
Please use the following links to forms to submit papers, workshops, or panel proposals. Please choose either the
or the
Foreign Language Representative
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