Kapok: Revue de création littéraire & artistique [Kapok: Journal of Literary and Artistic Creation] has despatched out a brand new name for papers for a difficulty organized across the theme: “Magma Connections.” The deadline for photographic or textual submissions is June 1, 2022. [Also see the description of the journal below.]
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Number one MAGMA CONNECTIONS
Like a geyser flowing by the tumultuous layer of the earth’s crust, the urge to put in writing manifests itself when it’s least anticipated. Unpredictable, irrepressible, and incompressible, the need to put in writing emerges just like the epiphany of a brand new language stammering, by its first phrases, the notice of being distinctive and sovereign on the earth.
Such is the destiny of the islands, that are stated to be majestic, sibylline, volcanic, or basaltic, on this meta-archipelago often called the “Caribbean” or “Island America”. On the floor, the sweetness is revealed to the recent eyes of those that need to see the tropical exuberance, the delight of the coasts, the magic of the unique. However the floor is barely a lure, or at the least the acute protuberance of a subterranean world that decides its destiny and evolution, at each second, in each assembly place. Let’s go into metaphors, let’s dive into the underground world.
Just a few hundred meters under the ocean flooring, tectonic connections are established, renewed or undone based on the plate tectonics well-known to the scientific world. Right here, on this web page, the destiny of recent identities, aesthetic connections, magmatic hyperlinks – magma connections –, presiding over the formation of a diasporic consciousness, is determined.
Sure, Kapok is its emanation. Mapou, Fwomajé, Ceiba: so many terminological variations of this sacred tree, reminiscence of historic instances, witness to the passage from one world to a different, drawing its sap from the fertile substratum of the New World. The spirit of the undiscovered World is housed and unfurled there, spreading its delicate essences all through all of the strata of this «new area of the world» the place all the things is connection, resurgence, remanence, syncretism and reinvention.
Allow us to due to this fact assume the aesthetic Caribbeanness that’s its basis and allow us to lend to literary, creative and stage writing the facility to carry to the floor the quintessence of the expertise, typically budding, however all the time actual, that’s expressed by the archipelagic and magmatic creation of the Peoples of the Sea. This primary subject provides all of them the latitude … and the scope.
Contributions to this lovely enterprise can take the type of textual or photographic articles (picture width: 1,500 pixels min.), movies (MP4 switch hyperlink) or sound recordings (WAV format). Textual articles should be formatted as MS-Phrase recordsdata (DOCX recordsdata).
Authors wishing to take part on this journey are invited to ship their contributions to the Editorial Committee, by 1 June 2022, to the next e-mail tackle: kapokcontributions@gmail.com.
PRESENTATION OF THE JOURNAL: KAPOK is a world journal created by the Affiliation Mélanges Caraïbes. The idea of this journal relies on the symbolic worth of the cocoon, enclosed within the shell that envelops the seeds of the Kapokier, a vegetable fiber that’s rot-proof, impermeable and inflammable. From this truth, it invitations a artistic thought that extracts from the artesian sources of Amerindianity, from its infinite conception of the cosmogonic cycles of nature, the telluric course of, of power and fertilisation of the pantropical forest, grasp beam of our deepest id.
That idea of the KAPOK undeniably brings the imaginative and prescient of semination by the kapok flakes that cowl the seeds, but it surely additionally refers back to the considered the cosmic tree, pillar of the World, axis mundi, ceremony of ascension, vectors of myths and symbolics, which circularly connects Caribbeanness with Americanness, Americanness with the «Tout-Monde» [All-World]. Since there isn’t a fruit with out bushes, nor bushes with out roots, Kapok is the substance of the Kapokier or the Fromager or the Ceiba pentandra, tree of life that nourishes, tree that heals and nourishes our most hidden imaginaries, and raises, from the start, the notion of creation and palingenesia, that’s to say a strategy of destruction in its incessant motion of (re)building within the not very humid and sterile terrain of the galloping globalisation. It’s to this incandescent aspiration and this want to resize aesthetics that this evaluation is basically directed.
- Director of publication: Frédéric Lefrançois
- Editor-in-Chief: Jean-Marc Rosier
- Affiliate editors: Alain Héloïse, Jacqueline-Manuela Ledoux
- Fiction/Essay Editors: Jacqueline-Manuela Ledoux
- Efficiency Arts Editor: Alain Marraud
- Poetry/Theatre Editors: Gérald Désert, Jean-Marc Rosier
- Visible Arts Editors: René-David Nelzin/ Ronald Cyrille
- Sound Arts Editor: Lucien Gratté
- Evaluations Editors: Gérald Désert/ Frédéric Lefrançois