35th Annual Conference
April 15-19, 2009
University of Vermont
Second call for panels, roundtables, and papers
General Theme: Africa and Blackness in World Literature and Visual Arts
The past two ALA conferences focused on various ways African and African Diaspora literature has functioned as a cultural catalyst that nurtures black people's subjectivity in the age of globalization. As a conclusion to the series, the 35th Annual ALA Conference will focus on the...read more
35th Annual Conference
April 15-19, 2009
University of Vermont
Second call for panels, roundtables, and papers
General Theme: Africa and Blackness in World Literature and Visual Arts
The past two ALA conferences focused on various ways African and African Diaspora literature has functioned as a cultural catalyst that nurtures black people's subjectivity in the age of globalization. As a conclusion to the series, the 35th Annual ALA Conference will focus on the ways creative writers and artists from other cultural traditions imagined Africa and blackness in the past as well as the extent to which that imagining has evolved and can be said to foster intersubjective dialogue in the age of globalization. As always, the conference will also welcome panels on other unexplored or inadequately explored aspects of African and African Diaspora literature.
