Call for contributors/ IV CHAM Conference -Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa / Panel P06 - Reconfiguring identities in a changing world: press, journals and books since the 1950’s

Noemi Alfieri Announcement
Location
Portugal
Subject Fields
African History / Studies, Archival Science, Black History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Literature

P06 - Call for contributors

Dear Collegues,

Helena Wakim Moreno and I are seeking for contributors for our panel “Reconfiguring identities in a changing world: press, journals and books since the 1950's”. (P06).

The panel will be included in the programme of the IV CHAM Conference - Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July, 2019. Panel P06 aims to debate the circulation of ideas and the reconfiguration of identities starting from the production and circulation of printed materials - either books or periodical publications - written and red by Africans or in Africa on the second half of the XXth Century.

Citing Stuart Hall, every form of identity has got its borders and limitations because it implies the narrativization of historical, cultural and linguistic resources. Imagining what it could become, a community adopts the representation that will function as interaction with the external world, creating a narration with fantastic elements. 

As identity does not correspond to an immutable and essential core of a society, the main purpose of this panel is to understand how journals, literature and the press reacted to the renewed social, political and cultural configurations. How did the printed material circulate between the African countries and in which frame it was spread outside Africa? Which were the contacts between writers, journalists and thinkers native from the different countries, in a Pan-African perspective? What kind of internal ambivalences and contrasts were animating the cultural debate? Reflecting about these opened questions is necessary to deconstruct exclusivist discourses of national narrations and to promote a deeper comprehension of the phenomena that lead to a deep turning point in the African culture.

We remember that the  keynote of the conference will be Professor Paul Gilroy, from King’s College, and that Routledge showed its interest in publishing a collective volume based on the conference.

More informations, such as the complete description of our panel and the submission form, directly at https://nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7308

You may also visit the conference website:  https://www.chamconference.org/2019/

Shall you need more informations, please don’t hesitate to contact us,

Thanks and hope to see you in Lisbon next year.

Contact Information

Noemi Alfieri - CHAM- FCSH/UNL

 

Contact Email
n.alfieri@yahoo.it