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In celebration of the 80th birthday of Edward Kamau Brathwaite and to mark Cave Hill Research Week 2011, the Seventh Workshop on Caribbean Theory and Criticism will be held on Friday February 25, 2011 at the Cave Hill Campus, University of the West Indies and will be focused on the work of this significant Caribbean artist and scholar. His contributions to the theorizing of Caribbean culture in general, and of literature in particular are far-reaching and diverse. From his seminal discussion of creolisation to his form-breaking approach to multi-media textuality, Brathwaite’s work crosses such far-ranging disciplines of history, linguistics, performance art, sociology, cultural studies and literature.
We invite submissions on any aspect of Brathwaite’s work within and related to these disciplines. Suggested topics include:
• Cross-cultural poetics
• Caribbean orality
• The performative text
• Caribbean (cyber)spaces
• Brathwaite as historian
• Brathwaite and Caribbean creolisation
Please send a 200 word abstract via e-mail no later than February 15th 2011 to one of the following members of the Organising Committee:
richard.clarke@cavehill.uwi.edu
andrew.armstrong@cavehill.uwi.edu
nicola.hunte@cavehill.uwi.edu
Please note that the Workshop previously announced for 7th December was poatponed.
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