Edited anthology of Conjure, Hoodoo and Voodoo in African-American Literature
full name / name of organization: James Mellis/ William Paterson University
contact email: mellisj@wpunj.edu
Articles are sought for a collection of essays on representations of Conjure, Hoodoo and Voodoo in African-American literature. This collection seeks to explore how African-American writers have used, referenced, engaged and disengaged with Conjure, Hoodoo and Voodoo in their writing through various cultural and historical movements.
The primary thread of this study will be an argument that from their initial arrival on American shores, African-American writers have used voodoo and conjuring as a literary trope that has served as a touchstone for religious, political and national identity. By examining slave narratives, novels, poetry and drama, this study will interrogate how African-American authors repeatedly returned to Conjure, Hoodoo and Voodoo as a way to examine their own shifting political and cultural positions in America. I am seeking original essays for a major academic publisher who has accepted the proposed anthology. Some authors that can treated are: Frederick Douglass, Phyllis Wheatley, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, Nat Turner, William Grimes, Olaudah Equiano, Charles Chesnutt, George Washington Cable, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph Fisher, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, Arna Bomtemps, Countee Cullen,Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, Robert Hayden, Toni Morrison, Rainelle Burton, Colson Whitehead, Charles Johnson, August Wilson, Ntzoke Shange, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Gloria Naylor, Darius James, Gayl Jones and Carl Hancock Rux, and others.
Please send proposals of 250-350 words to mellis@wpunj.edu. Please note that an invitation to submit a full essay does not guarantee inclusion in the published volume.
By web submission at 08/20/2015 - 15:03
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