CFP: Afromodernisms 2

CALL FOR PAPERS: Afromodernisms 2
What’s really new? Blackness and Atlantic Modernism, 1907–61

Symposium: University of Liverpool, UK C
onfirmed Keynotes:Prof Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley

30 June–2 July 2011

Afromodernisms 2 focuses on the relationship between the Afro-Atlantic and the modernist canon. Specifically, the symposium seeks to address the ways in which current configurations of modernism—the art and literature of the new—may be inflected, expanded, or even called into question by either localized or transnational Africanist interventions into the politics and culture of the first half of the twentieth century.