Thinking Race, Writing Gender: Ernest J. Gaines' Vision

Thinking Race, Writing Gender: Ernest J. Gaines' Vision

Deadline: July 31, 2010

Call for papers for a collective publication on Ernest J. Gaines

While carefully going through Ernest James Gaines' writing, one notices the presence of racial and gender issues. In view of publishing a collective book on the literature of this regionalist writer from Virginia, we invite authors to submit papers ranging from as various theoretical perspectives as the following:

- Marxism

- Feminism

- Psychoanalysis

- Postcolonialism

- Structuralism

- Sociocriticism

- Narratology

- Deconstructionism

- Cultural studies,

- Etc.

Instructions to authors:

Articles should be presented as follows:

1-Title of the article on top of the page followed by name of author and University of affiliation

2- Sumary (200 words maximum) in English followed by 5 to 10 key-words.

3-Intertitles: they must be presented as follows: 1-, 1.1-, 1.1.1-, etc.

4-Quotations : Quotations of less than 04 lines: incorporated in the text.

5-Quotations of 04 lines or more: separated from the text with an indent of 1.5 cm from the left.

6-References in the text: (Author, year, page) (Ex.Walker, 1983, 227).

7-Titles of books, reviews and journals: in italics.

8-Title of articles, thesis, mémoires, poems: in quotation marks but not in italics.

9-Foreign words: (" ")

10-Footnotes: continuous for the whole text.

11- Bibliography: analphabetically and according to the MLA handbook

12- Submission of articles: articles of 12 pages maximum, spacing: 1,5, font size: 12, Times New Roman, must be sent to: N'GUESSAN Kouadio Germain, e-mail: kouadiogermain@yahoo.fr at the latest on July 31, 2010