THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON, VT
WELCOMES YOU TO

The 35th Annual African Literature Association Conference
April 15 - 19, 2009

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AFRICA AND BLACKNESS IN WORLD
LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS

The last two ALA conferences focused on various ways African and African Diaspora literature has functioned as a cultural catalyst that nurtures black people’s subjectivity in the age of globalization. As a conclusion to the series, the 35th Annual ALA Conference will focus on the ways creative writers and artists from other cultural traditions have imagined Africa and blackness in the past as well as the extent to which that imagining has evolved and can be said to foster intersubjective dialogue in the age of globalization. As always, the conference will also welcome panels on other unexplored or inadequately explored aspects of African and African Diaspora literature.

SUBTHEMES:
~Africa and Blackness in Classical Literature and Visual Arts
~Africa and Blackness in Modern Literature and Visual Arts
~Africa and Blackness in Contemporary Literature and Visual Arts
~Africa in African Immigrant Writers’ Literature and Visual Arts
~Africa in African American and African Caribbean Literature and Visual Arts
~Black Artists and Reconstitution of Black People’s Subjectivity
~Cosmopolitanism in African and African Diaspora Literature
~African and African Diaspora Literary Criticism and Global Cultural Dynamisms
~Postcolonialism and Postcoloniality in Relation to Africa and Blackness
~Approaches to Teaching African and African Diaspora Literature (Teachers Workshop)
~Other aspects of African and African Diaspora Literature

PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Magdalene Odundo,
Michael Echeruo, V.Y. Mudimbe, Nkashama Pius Ngandu (Francophone Caucus),
Akachi Ezeigbo (WOCALA) & Zakes Mda

CONVENER: Lokangaka Losambe Department of English University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 llosambe@uvm.edu _

CO-CONVENERS: Helen Scott & Isabella Jeso Department of English University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 Helen.Scott@uvm.edu Isabella.Jeso@uvm.edu

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