Black Antiquity, Emplotment, and the Vindicating Self
Black Antiquity, Emplotment, and the Vindicating Self
CFP: This call for papers invites contributors to publish analyses in an anthology focused on writers, artists, and others who have engaged with or represented aspects of a Black past. We are seeking works in literature, film, music, art, or any other relevant fields that incorporate elements of the Black past in a broad sense.
Cultural and historical expressive literary forms involve creators who address connections to an ancestral past. This anthology aims to compile various uses of African antiquity as a concept. The anthology seeks writings that depict aspects of the past and works that cover, embed, gather, and portray lineage ties or dissociation and heritage unions or detachment that contemporize perceived identities. We invite contributors to assess expressed thoughts that capture the present alongside a formulated past, including influences from Africa and the African diasporas. The proposed compilation seeks to assemble and select submissions across several genres, all aimed at ancestral reception and revealing embedded text about the ancient and/or immediate past and their functional meanings.
Please note accepted abstracts will be notified promptly. This anthology is being prepared for a literary series of a university press. Please send your name, institutional affiliation, and abstract with title heading to CFP listserv.
Jorge Serrano