Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Spring 2024 (Vol. 14) publication. Sankofa welcomes articles that relate to one of the following areas: (1) “The African Scene,” which provides critical, scholarly articles about Read More …
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JALA Special Issue: Engaging Emerging Trends in African Ecocriticism
In their introduction to the special edition of African Literature Today captioned “Environmental Transformations,” Cajetan Iheka and Stephanie Newell assert that “The geography of African ecocriticism has shifted considerably,” affirming the expanding scope of ecocriticism in Africa. From the foundational work of pioneer scholars Read More …
Politics of Criticism, Criticism of Politics ⎻ On Being an Academic and an Intellectual in the Postcolony
This conference, in honor of Ambroise Kom, is an invitation to reflect on the decolonization of methodological approaches, a sine qua non for restoring the dignity of African peoples and a prerequisite for the emergence of a new humanism in Africa. We propose engaging in a reflection inspired by his work, through a focus on what might be called a form of inopportune thought, which intersects with the reverberations of a reflection that, praising dissidence, calls for the duty of indignation.
14th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference: “Reckoning”
This year’s theme is “Reckoning,” a term that evokes the multitudinous ways responsibility and accountability may be linked to forms of measurement, methodology, and knowledge-constitution.
Comicalités Special Issue ⎻ Comics and Ecopolitics
This special issue invites considerations of comics’ ecopolitical potential. Ecopolitics, and the intersections between environmentalism and other political struggles for justice, have taken on renewed urgency in an era now widely known as the Anthropocene, a term that has been contested for its universalism as ‘the Age of Man’ and its erasure of the ways in which imperialism and inequalities have marked this new geological era.
Journal of African Cinemas ⎻ “Artistic Epistemologies: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa
Full CFP description: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa: Journal of African Cinemas CFP The Journal of African Cinemas website: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas#call-for-papers
ACTIO NOVA: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature ⎻ “Instances of agency and agonism in postcolonial black-African literature”
ACTIO NOVA ⎻ Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Monograph 6 ⎻ “Instances of agency and agonism in postcolonial black-African literature: (trans)formations and (trans)mutations” Two of the most striking characteristics of the literary creation carried out by black-African writers Read More …
Journal of African Cinemas ⎻ Bongo Movies: A Study of the New Swahili Cinema
The Volume aims at describing and analyzing the ways in which Bongo movies narratives locate its identities and form, and critically examine the underlying operating principles behind its aesthetics, its affects (distribution) and how its specific constitution performs discourse. It Read More …
African Literature Today (ALT) 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics
African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 42) with a focus on “Poetry and Poetics” and hereby calls for well researched articles for the volume. The issue seeks to appraise crucial developments in the broad field of Read More …
Mashariki (Eastern African) Literary and Cultural Studies Conference
Aesthetics and Interpretative Practices across East African Literary and Cultural Imaginaries The 6th Mashariki (Eastern African) Literary and Cultural Studies Conference Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda August 24-26, 2023 The 6th Mashariki (Eastern African) Literary and Cultural Studies Conference comes Read More …