Rather short notice, but right up Cardicis's street?
A paper ABOUT Cardicis, a paper BY Cardicis working comunally??

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>From: Brandon, Edwin Philip
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>Date: 28-Mar-2007 07:18
>Subject: CFP Shibboleths Vol 1 no. 3
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>CFP for "Shibboleths: A Journal of Comparative Theory" 1.3 (May 2007)
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>The deadline for submission is April 30, 2007.
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>(RE)THINKING CARIBBEAN CULTURE III
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Submissions are invited for Vol. 1. No. 3 of SHIBBOLETHS on the theme of
>(Re)Thinking Caribbean Culture.
>
>'Caribbean culture' is a term bandied about both within and without
>academe with ever increasing frequency. At the bidding of the Vice
>Chancellor, the University of the West Indies has recently undertaken a
>so-called 'Cultural Studies Initiative.' But what exactly do we
>understand by terms such as 'culture' or 'cultural studies' or
>'Caribbean'? How can we effectively make use of concepts such as 'race'
>or 'gender' or 'class' or 'diaspora' or 'nation-state' or the ubiquitous
>'identity,' to cite just a few examples, if we are not clear in our own
>minds what exactly these mean for us in the region?
>
>(Re)Thinking Caribbean Culture is an attempt to answer such questions by
>specifying and assessing the major ways in which Caribbean culture in
>its various manifestations has historically been conceptualised. Given
>that much research on the Caribbean had long been mainly empirical in
>thrust, attention to the precise theoretical frameworks which inform the
>study of particular aspects of Caribbean culture (its arts, its history,
>its language, etc.) is arguably both timely and necessary. The old adage
>that the answers one gets depend on the nature of the questions posed is
>one that has arguably not been sufficiently explored in the region up to
>now. Accordingly, one of the most important aims of this issue and, by
>extension, volume of SHIBBOLETHS is to explore, where particular
>orthodoxies may arguably have become enshrined, stale or even disproved,
>alternative perspectives from which Caribbean culture might or ought to
>be rethought.
>
>Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
>
>the conceptualisation of key terms such as 'race,' 'racism,' 'gender,'
>'misogyny,' 'nationhood,' 'Africanness,' 'Europeanness,' etc.;
>
>the relationship between the literary text, the world, the author and /
>or the reader;
>
>'nation language,' 'creolisation' and similar linguistic concepts;
>
>the debate over whether logic can ever be culturally-specific;
>
>the 'objectivity' and 'scientific' status of histories of the Caribbean;
>
>conceptions of the Caribbean social formation; and
>
>theories of Caribbean polity.
>
>Although we are particularly interested in papers that focus on the
>precise theoretical frameworks which inform the study of particular
>aspects of Caribbean culture, we are also open to theoretically
>'self-aware' contributions that seek to apply particular theoretical
>approaches in the form of close readings of literary or other texts,
>discussions of specific historical controversies, and so on.
>
>Deadline: April 30, 2007
>
>
>Sincerely,
>Richard Clarke
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