Presentations and papers published in the conference proceedings will provide not only a comprehensive assessment of Caribbean migratory poetics and fresh readings of Caribbean border crossings, displacement, and exile, but will also allow for comparative readings across different Caribbean diasporic literary traditions and reorient literary theorizing around diasporas to the specifics of Caribbean experience.

Papers that address any aspect of the conference theme are invited. Both individual paper submissions and proposals for panels are welcome. Participants are encouraged to address the conference theme from all relevant perspectives, including (but not limited to):

• Foreign Bodies, Foreign Minds: Race, Sexuality, Language and Caribbean Representations
• Hybridity, Syncretism and Caribbean Identities and Cultures
• Indo-Caribbean/Chinese-Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas
• Pre-Twentieth Century Migrations, Relocations and Contacts
• Nations, Imagi-nations, and the Caribbean Presence
• Second Generation Caribbean Identities in the Diaspora
• Intra-Caribbean Migrations
• Caribbean-Canadian Literature
• Caribbean Writing in the US
• The Caribbean Presence in Britain and Europe
• Migratory Poetics: prose fiction, poetry, drama and film

Proposals are also invited for two Roundtable Sessions on:

• Travelling Cultures: Caribbean Festivals and Art Forms Abroad
• Teaching Caribbean Literature: Visions and Challenges

Please submit abstracts of 300-400 words to the e-mail address given below by 15 December 2004. Abstracts must include: title of the paper/panel; name(s) of presenter(s); institutional affiliation(s); email addresses, telephone and fax numbers. For further information, e-mail or go to the web address shown below.