Lugano Caribbean Conference

“THE CARIBBEAN UNBOUND III”

Franklin College Conference on
Caribbean Literature and Culture

Keynote Speaker: Maryse Condé, Novelist

"CALL FOR PAPERS"

Possible Panel Topics:

Maryse Condé / Maryse Condé and Africa/ Léon Damas: Négritude revisited/The Pre-Columbian Caribbean/Edwidge Danticat/ Comparative Caribbean literature by women/ Francophonie: resistance or affiliation/Anglophone Caribbean fiction/ Les Indigènes de la République/ Archipelagic environment: Caribbean and Pacific imaginations/ A travers l'enfance: Tracing Childhood / Caribbean orality / Gabriel García Márquez, Caribbean author/ Haiti: Past and Present/ Genealogies/ Racial and Sexual Ambiguities/Caribbean media & cinema/ Tomás Gutiérrez Alea/ Caribbean music/ Marketing the Caribbean/ Autobiography + travel writing/ Anglophone poetry from the Caribbean/ Derek Walcott: readings, interpretations and translation/ Carpentier, Alexis + Roumain: the origins of Magical Realism/ Creolization/ V.S. Naipaul: Fiction & History/ Translation – Fanon

There will also be literary readings from numerous Caribbean authors.


DEADLINE for Proposals:

submit panel and/or presentation proposals (with a 1/2 page abstract ) by September 30, 2006


Thursday evening, March 29th – Saturday, March 31, 2007

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: Swiss Francs 50 / $ 40 (which includes 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. at

mccoro@fc.edu

TEL - +4191 986 3631

N.B.: Lugano is a short shuttle-bus ride from Milan's Malpensa airport.