Here’s a name for papers for a particular subject on “Literature, Artwork, and Environmental Activism” by visitor editor Leah Rosenberg (College of Florida) for the Journal of West Indian Literature. The deadline for abstracts is November 1, 2022.
Writers, filmmakers, musicians, and different arts performers have taken a number one position in protesting governmental failure and company accountability for environmental destruction and catastrophe throughout the Caribbean. Within the 2000s, Caribbean writers, filmmakers, visible and different artists have spoken fact to energy in Puerto Rico and Dominica after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, within the wrestle to protect Jamaica’s Cockpit nation from bauxite mining, and towards extractive industries, tourism, and different environmentally harmful types of improvement. The truth is, writers and artists have been documenting, illuminating, and protesting environmental destruction since Caribbean cultural traditions emerged.
We invite scholarly essays in addition to the statements of artists and writers that illuminate the assorted and profound contribution of literature, movie and different arts to Caribbean environmental activism. We hope to handle the lengthy historical past of artists’ and writers’ environmental issues and activism, the huge geographical and social attain of their efforts throughout the Caribbean and its diaspora, the methods during which environmental change and disaster have formed inventive type, and artists’ and writers’ imaginative and prescient for the long run.
Potential contributors ought to submit 300–500 phrase abstracts by 1 November 2022. Responses to summary submissions can be despatched by 15 November 2022; last variations of accepted papers can be due 15 April 2023. Scholarly essays must be between 6000 and 8000 phrases. Writers’ and artists’ statements or essays could also be significantly shorter.
Please submit abstracts via the JWIL submission web page: https://www.jwilonline.org/submission-guidelines/article-guidelines/
For queries in regards to the subject, please contact Leah Rosenberg, rosenber@ufl.edu
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[Image above: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla’s “Land Mark (Foot Prints)” 2001-2002.]