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Small Axe call for papers: Crossing Borders of Language and Culture
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2002-12-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2002-05-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
130484 |
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Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism is organizing a special issue devoted to works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and visual art that treat the theme, "Crossing Borders of Language and Culture." While the language divide (e.g., Spanish / English) has been treated by Caribbean scholars and politicians as paramount, there are countless examples of language barriers being surmounted by the movements of ordinary people and their cultural adaptations and inventions, historically and in the present. The creation of the plena musical genre in the multi-cultural plantation milieu of early 20th-century southern Puerto Rico, the transplantation of the Haitian vaudou religion and rara processionals to Cuba and the Dominican Republic, inter-island marronage and other historical forms of border transgression, and the present-day trafficking of Dominican sex workers to Haiti, St. Martin, and Antigua are all significant human bridges across the Caribbean's linguistic boundaries. We are particularly interested in the social and political usages and meanings of diasporic and liminal spaces, and submissions that look critically at how these spaces have been read or misread, romanticized or erased by scholars. We also welcome contributions that critically appraise the limitations imposed by multi-linguism and consider examples of how linguistic and cultural borders have been transcended in Caribbean letters. What difference does it make for a person to study or write in a Caribbean society other than the one in which s/he grew up? Also at issue is the assumption that the people in motion are the only ones changed by migration across the region. It is of special interest also how Caribbean hosts of culturally-different immigrants may redefine their own identities both by conceptually opposing themselves with the immigrant Others in their midst and by selectively appropriating aspects of these immigrants' cultures.
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Samuel Martinez,Department of Anthropology,
University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield road, Unit 2176
Storrs, CT 06269
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Charles Carnegie
Department Of Anthropology
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine 04240
Email: samuel.martinez@uconn.edu
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