African Literature Association 2008
The 34th Annual African Literature Association Conference
April 22 - 27, 2008
Conference Updates
Conference Schedule (Updated Apr. 18, 2008)
- Book Launch Events (Apr. 21, 2008)
- Lifetime Award Winners Announced (Apr. 21, 2008)
- Amachree ALA Membership Award Winners (Apr. 4, 2008)
- Shuttle Service Information Added (Mar. 20, 2008)
- List of Speakers, Writers & Guests (Mar. 13, 2008)
Conference Theme: “African and African Diaspora Women Writers, Global Challenges and Cultural Identity”
Subthemes
- African Literature and Human Rights
- African Language Literature, Cinema and the Global Hegemony
- Readers, reading and (critical) interpretations
- Viewing Gender;through the Lens of African Literature ;
- Women in Literature, Film & Cinema, and the Media
- African Literature, Environment Politics and HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa
- African Immigrant and New World writers: British, French, Italian, German and other European and American/Latin American
- Pedagogy in African and African Diaspora Literatures
- Indigenous African Theorizing: Oral Traditions and the Arts
- The opportunities and challenges of the digitally connected globe: African literature, culture and performance
- Children’s Literature in African Traditions
- Any other interesting topics in the wider discipline of African and African Diaspora literature
The ALA 2008 conference theme celebrates the creativity, versatility, and vibrancy of Women of Africa and the African Diaspora by foregrounding their writings, oratures, and creative imaginations through all forms of literary genres, performance explorations, cultures, languages, styles, critical paradigms and more. Yet, this conference, in accordance with ALA tradition, is open to all the areas and approaches of literatures from Africa and its diaspora, in all its traditions and interdisciplinary scholarships.
African Literature Association 2008
Department of African American Studies • Western Illinois University
1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455
E-mail: ala2008@wiu.edu
Phone: 309-298-1181