A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS 

Rudolph Fisher, Luminary of the Harlem Renaissance
We invite submissions for a special issue on the work of Rudolph Fisher.  Essays  re-assessing all of Fisher’s work  using contemporary literary critical methods and current approaches to diaspora, race, and cross-cultural encounter are especially welcome.  Specific topics and themes may include, but are not limited to:

• New critical approaches to Fisher’s writing
• Fisher and theories of race
• Reconsidering the detective genre
• Alternative modernisms in Fisher’s work
• Fisher’s essays and book reviews
• Early cinema and Fisher’s narrative strategy
• Fisher’s use of science, medicine, art, and folk practices
• Fisher and his influences
• Fisher and the Harlem Renaissance
• Fisher’s dramatic collaborations and the Federal Theater Project
• Previously unpublished material
• Fisher’s process, e.g. “The Lindy-Hop Variants”

The deadline for submissions is January 30, 2009.  Please send submissions to:

Callaloo / The Fisher Issue
Dept. of English, Blocker 249
Texas A&M University
TAMU 4212
College Station, TX 77843-4227

Please address any inquiries concerning the calls for papers to Molly Anne Rothenberg, guest editor, at mollyrothenberg@yahoo.com. Please do not send any manuscripts to the guest editor. All submissions should be sent to Callaloo.

Black British Issue

Deadline extended to October 31, 2008!

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Note: Unless otherwise stated, please direct all e-mail inquiries to callaloo@tamu.edu.

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