The Affiliation of Caribbean Girls Writers and Students has simply introduced its Name for Papers for a particular problem of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) on the work of Pamela Mordecai. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is August 7, 2022. [Full papers are due: October 15, 2022, and the publication date is April 2023.]
Description: This particular problem of the Journal of West Indian Literature seeks papers and reflections on the work of Pamela Mordecai. For over 4 many years now, Mordecai has been producing various literary works. She has revealed poetry, brief tales, performs, textbooks, and different types of writing, together with a novel and a short-story assortment. Along with being one of many ladies writers who led the regular progress of Caribbean ladies’s literature because the Eighties, Mordecai has been on the forefront of the work of bringing visibility to Caribbean ladies’s literature by way of ground-breaking collections comparable to Her True-True Title. But, Mordecai’s oeuvre and different contributions to Caribbean literature and tradition as editor, anthologist and writer haven’t been sufficiently acknowledged by the vital group.
We invite scholarly articles that handle completely different facets of Mordecai’s work, together with her positioned Caribbean sensibilities and rhetorical methods, in addition to her diasporic attain. We additionally welcome non-traditional educational submissions (comparable to artistic reflections on her work and influences) and ebook opinions of her newest assortment, A Fierce Inexperienced Place: New and Chosen Poems (2022). Scholarly essays needs to be between 6000 and 8000 phrases. Inventive items might be between 2000 and 5000 phrases, and ebook opinions 1000-1500 phrases.
Potential contributors ought to submit 300-500 phrase abstracts by 7 August 2022. Responses to summary submissions shall be despatched by 21 August 2022 and ultimate variations of accepted papers shall be due 15 October 2022. Please ship abstracts and all inquiries to Carol Bailey (c2010bailey@gmail.com) and Stephanie McKenzie (smckenzi@grenfell.mun.ca)
Concerning the particular problem editors: Carol Bailey is co-editor of A Fierce Inexperienced Place: New and Chosen Poems, writer of A Poetics of Efficiency: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (UWI Press, 2014), and the forthcoming ebook, Writing the Black Diasporic Metropolis within the Age of Globalization (Rutgers College Press, 2023). Stephanie McKenzie is Professor, Grenfell Campus, Memorial College, and co-editor of A Fierce Inexperienced Place: New and Chosen Poems. She is the writer of three books of poetry (revealed by Salmon Press) and Earlier than the Nation: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology (College of Toronto Press, 2007; rpt. 2019).
Concerning the Journal: The Journal of West Indian Literature has been revealed twice-yearly by Literatures in English, College of the West Indies since 1986. JWIL displays a continued dedication to offer a regional and worldwide discussion board for the dissemination and dialogue of Caribbean literary and creative tradition.
[Photo above by Martin Mordecai; see https://quillandquire.com/authors/2015/04/27/poetry-month-qa-pamela-mordecai-on-recording-her-canon/]