[Push2Precious] Call for Papers: Sapphire

[Moya Bailey]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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>> Sapphire: PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art is a new
>> collection focused on the work of author and
>> performance artist Sapphire. Critics, teachers,
>> performance artists, and social justice activists
>> are intrigued by Sapphire's craft, inspired by the
>> relevance of the issues she dares to confront, and
>> moved by her sympathetic characterizations and
>> overall vision. This proposed volume emerges from
>> the success of a one-day symposium on Sapphire's
>> work hosted at Arizona State University in February
>> 2007, at which scholars, teachers, and activists
>> from diverse backgrounds and critical, theoretical,
>> and pragmatic perspectives looked at the richness of
>> this author's literary contributions. Until now,
>> Sapphire's work has not been the subject of
>> sustained scholarly analysis, although articles,
>> dissertations, and conference presentations to date
>> demonstrate the range of continued interest by
>> scholars in her writing, voice, and vision.
>> Recognizing the complexities and impact of
>> Sapphire's writing, this volume offers an
>> opportunity for dialogue among multiple intellectual
>> and social communities-domestic and
>> international-and across academe and the wider
>> public.
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>> Co-editors (Drs. Elizabeth McNeil, Neal Lester, DoVeanna Fulton
Minor, and Lynette Myles) 
seek provocative new essays on
>> Sapphire's poetry and fiction, as well as on the
>> recent film adaptation of Sapphire's influential
>> novel PUSH (released as Precious). Essays focused on
>> environmental concerns in the text and/or film,
>> pedagogical implications of the text and/or film,
>> and engagement with black feminist/womanist
>> theory/criticism that engages the complexity and
>> diversity of black women's and girls' lives through
>> analysis of this text and film would be of
>> particular interest.
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>> Please send your complete 20- to 30-page manuscript
>> with a one-page abstract and three-line author's
>> biography to Elizabeth McNeil, Arizona State
>> University, at mcn...@asu.edu, by the deadline of
>> June 1, 2010.

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