Welcome

Welcome to our blog on the 6th International Caribbean Women's Writing Conference. The theme of this year's Conference is Comparative Critical Conversations.

Caribbean Women’s Literature as a body of work has become rooted in the region and across the diaspora. As a result, critics and teachers engaged in discovering, interpreting and disseminating the study of the texts have sought and found various discursive spaces from which to explore its distinctive aesthetics and particular complexities. The resulting transition from silence and absence to differentiated presence has opened a range of questions which this conference wishes to address. Centrally, we ask: how might the readings of Caribbean Women’s literature, alongside other ‘minority’ and ‘canonical’ texts within given national literatures produce perspectives that might re-invigorate as well as re-address contemporary critical processes?

‘Comparative Critical Conversations’ is an international 2-day conference to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London on 24th and 25th June 2011. It aims to reconfigure methodologies through comparative responses to the literature in a bid to further understand the deep and complex relations between texts that derive from a culture variously described as mimetic, hybrid, fragmented, syncretic and so on.


Guest Writer: M NourbeSe Philip
Keynote Speaker: Professor Maria Helena Lima

Panels
Affect and Creole Poetics
Female Subjectivity & Gender Relations
Auto-theorising Texts
Our Americas, Our Histories
Writing our Americas
Creolisation and Diaspora
Writing the Postnational/Transnational
History/ Trauma and Literary Imagination
Poet’s World/ Poetic Performance
Creole Versions
Spoken Word/ Form/ Poetics
Intersections and Methodologies

To register for the conference please download a registration form