June, 2002

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Adoption, Kinship and Family

Deadline: June 15, 2002

For a special issue on the literature of adoption, kinship, and family.  Articles are being solicited for a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies focusing on writing about adoption, kinship, and family.  Essays may treat autobiographies, journals, letters and other forms of autobiographical or biographical literature in any discipline about adoption, kinship, and family, and address such questions as: How does adoption and kinship mediate questions of identity, ethnicity and religious affiliation? How are the politics of adoption, kinship and family expressed in life writing? How do we address the recent surge in adoption autobiographies? What relationship do these texts have with the adoption rights movement, with the growing acceptance of non- raditional families, with the development of new reproductive technologies? How might adoption and kinship autobiography inform an understanding of gay parenting, single parenting, an extended-family parenting? What can we learn about globalization from personal stories of inter-cultural and inter-country adoption? What tropes and images characterize narratives of adoption and kinship? How can we use this writing in our classes and our lives?

Send queries and completed essays to:
Emily Hipchen and Jill R. Deans
c/o a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Department of Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 53190-1790
(262) 472-5037
Email: hipchene@uww.edu

Deadline for submissions is 15 June 2002.

New Perspectives on African American Poetry

Deadline: June 15, 2002*

This is a call for manuscripts for Slipping through the Canebrake: New Perspectives on African American Poetry. The editors seek previously unpublished essays from a variety of critical and cultural perspectives on African American poetry from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. We are especially interested in ways the poetry of African America inscribes a cultural solidarity as a communal value characterizing the collective journey toward liberation.  Papers should be from 20 to 30 pages double spaced and should adhere to MLA style. 

*Submit abstracts along with a brief CV by March 15, 2002. 

Completed papers are due by June 15, 2002.  Notification of acceptance by July 1, 2002.

For more information contact the editors:
Timothy Askew, Ph.D.
Department of English
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, GA 30314
404-880-8170
OR
Maxine Sample., Ph.D.
Department of English
State University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118
msample@westga.edu
770-836-6512

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