The Caribbean Research Affiliation (CSA) as simply despatched out its name for submissions for the 2023 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award. The deadline for submissions of books is Friday, April 21, 2023.
Born and raised within the Virgin Islands of the USA (VI-US), Dr. Barbara Christian devoted her life to difficult concepts about race, gender, class, and epistemology – rejecting the assumption that crucial concept emanated solely from the West and that African diaspora and Caribbean methods of theorizing had been someway inferior to Eurocentric philosophical ideas. A dedicated feminist, educator and printed creator, Dr. Barbara T. Christian pioneered the start of black ladies’s literary criticism and concept.
This CSA literary award established in 2001 to honor the reminiscence of distinguished Caribbean-American black feminist and womanist theorist Dr. Barbara T. Christian, celebrates her mental legacy and is given to the most effective e book printed inside the newest three-year interval which explicitly and innovatively examines matters of race, gender, sexuality, class, and intersectionality. [. . .]
In paying homage to Dr. Christian’s mental legacy and persevering with relevance to the work of the CSA, we’re assured that we are going to get many great and aggressive submissions this yr as CSA celebrates its’ forty ninth Anniversary and forty seventh CSA Convention with distinctive multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural scholarship, analysis, schooling and extra. Monographs from all disciplines and fields of scholarship within the Humanities and Caribbean Research will probably be granted critical consideration. Choice will probably be given to books written by a number of authors versus edited volumes or anthologies.
“For one should distinguish the will for energy from the necessity to turn into empowered-that is, seeing oneself as able to and having the suitable to find out one’s life. Such empowerment is partially derived from a data of historical past. The black arts motion did consequence within the creation of Afro-American research as an idea, thus giving it a spot within the college the place one may interact within the reclamation of Afro-American historical past and tradition and go it on to others. I’m notably involved that establishments resembling black research and girls’s research, fought for with such vigor and at some sacrifice, should not usually seen as necessary by a lot of our black or ladies students exactly as a result of the previous hierarchy of conventional departments is seen as superior to those “marginal” teams. But, it’s on this context that many others of us are discovering the extent of our complexity, the interrelationships of various areas of information in relation to a distinctly Afro-American or feminine expertise. Reasonably than having to view our world as subordinate to others, or slightly than having to work as if we had been hybrids, we will pursue ourselves as topics.” (Christian: 1988)
The winner will probably be introduced on the CSA2023 Convention Gala in June 2023. The prizes will embody a certificates, plaque, money award, and particular Caribbean cultural reward. Authors are inspired to submit for this Name for Books and put together to affix the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award legacy alongside previous winners for CSA2016-2022 that embody:
- Angelique V. Nixon for Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora and Sexuality in Caribbean Tradition (College Press of Mississippi © 2015) – CSA2016 in Haiti
- Marisa J. Fuentes for Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Girls, Violence and the Archive (College of Pennsylvania Press © 2016) AND Brendan Jamal Thornton for Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity and the Politics of Religious Authority within the Dominican Republic (College Press of Florida © 2016) – CSA2017 within the Bahamas
- Dixa Ramirez for Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal within the Dominican Americas, from the nineteenth Century to Current (New York College Press © 2018) – CSA2019 in Santa Marta, Columbia
- Patricia Mohammed for Writing Gender into the Caribbean (Hansib Publications © 2021- CSA2021 in Guyana.
- Daive A. Dunkley for Girls and Resistance within the Early Rastafari Motion (Louisiana State College Press © 2021) – CSA2022 in Jamaica
Authors, your title and publication may very well be subsequent for CSA2023 in St. Croix Virgin Islands.
PLEASE SUBMIT TWO (2) BOOKS TO*:
Chenzira Davis Kahina, Administrator
Per Ankh Institute
PO Field 607
Kingshill, St. Croix Virgin Islands (US) 00850-0607
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS: FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023
For extra data and to submit digital model of publications, ship e mail to president@caribbeanstudiesassociation.org and replica to perankh@me.com