Black Women Writers and the “Toxic, Ecological Other”

Black Women Writers and the “Toxic, Ecological Other”

Session type: Panel

Organized by: P. Jane Splawn

Send abstracts or inquiries to: jsplawn@netzero.net

How have contemporary women writers from Africa and the diaspora represented what Sarah Jaquette Ray has called the toxic, ecological other? How have they described human bodies entangled in environmental transformations and social injustices? In what ways have they interrogated the connections and disconnections between culture and nature? Send 250 word abstracts and brief bios by February 5, 2018 to Thelma Pinto at pinto@hws.edu.