“CARIBBEAN UNBOUND V: Vodou and Créolité”
Franklin College Conference on Caribbean Literature & Culture
Keynote Speaker: Simone Schwarz-Bart, novelist and playwright
CALL FOR PAPERS
Possible panel topics:
Vodou and Gender / L'oeuvre de Simone Schwarz-Bart / Materialism and Folk Religion/ Zombies and ‘revenants' in novels by André and Simone Schwarz-Bart/ Chamoiseau et l'oralité / Caribbean Cityscapes / Traumas / Diasporic Vodou / Representation of Caribbean Women/ Comparative Caribbean Fiction / Caribbean Literary Chronologies: Négritude, Antillianité, and Créolité (Negritud-Negrismo, Antillanidad e Hibridez)/ Caribbean Modernity/ Caribbean Cinema & Films about the Caribbean/ Literary Expressions of the Haitian Diaspora in Québec/ Caribbean Performance: Theater, Dance & Music/ Travel Writing / Migration to and from the Caribbean / Reunifying Hispaniola/ Women Voicing Caribbean Realities / Caribbean Autobiography/ Creole Religions of the Caribbean Cultural Zone: Santéria, Candomblé and Vodou/ Anglophone Caribbean Poetry/ Ambiguities of Race, Class and Gender/ Diaspora(s) / Indigenism, Spiralism and Magical Realism / Contemporary French West Indian Fiction/ Conflicting Nationalisms in Haiti and the Dominican Republic / Interplays of Voice, Place and Time/ Vodou and the Haitian Revolution/ The Blacksmiths of Croix-des-Bouquets (in conjunction with “Il Museo delle Culture Extraeuropee” in Lugano) / Caribbeans in Switzerland
DEADLINE for Proposals: submit panel and presentation titles along
with a 100 word abstract (via WORD attachment ) by September 25, 2010
Thursday evening, April 7th – Saturday, April 9th, 2011
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: 175 Swiss Francs (60 sfr. for graduate students), which include a Caribbean dinner prepared by Franklin College students and staff
For further information contact Prof. Robert H. McCormick, Jr. Email: rmccormick@fc.edu
Tel. +41.91.986.36.31, website: www.fc.edu