27327: Benson (announce) Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: LeGrace Re Women Writers

To: <H-CARIBBEAN@H-NET.MSU.EDU>


Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005
From: E. Hawthorne <Ehawthorne03@aol.com>
Subject: ANN:  Caribbean Women Writers & Scholars



Call for Papers

The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars invites
abstracts for the 10th Anniversary International Conference â?oThe Caribbean
Woman Writer as Scholar: Imagining/Theorizing/Creatingâ?? to be held
May 30-June 3, 2006, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

           Sample Panel Topics:
           The Creative Theoretical
           Caribbean Feminist Theory
           The Caribbean Imaginary
           Orality and the Creative Imagination
           Imagining Progressive Futures
           One Caribbean in the Vision of Writers and Artists
           Inspiration and Speculative Fiction
           Caribbean Women Writers in Print and Digital Formats
           Writing Being the Caribbean Mother
           Cultural Metaphors from the Caribbean: Stories Teaching

Abstracts of 150-200 words should be sent to: Dr. Carole Boyce
Davies, Conference Host, Director African-New World Studies, FIU, AC1-161,
Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151 St., N. Miami, FL 33181.  Deadline is extended 
to
January 16, 2006.