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Call for Papers
Symposium on "Richard Wright: The Man, the Writer,
and his Place in American and African American Letters"
University of Utah
April 2-5, 2009
 The Department of English and the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah and the African American Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association are soliciting scholarly papers for the symposium "Richard Wright: The Man, the Writer and Their Place in American and African American Letters." We are especially interested in papers that address:
- Wright's journalism
- Wright's use of allusion
- Wright's engagement with moral and ethical issues
- Wright's relationship with George Padmore and other Pan-Africanists
- Wright's correspondence with Frantz Fanon and other Francophone intellectuals
- Wright's works and post-colonial theory
- Censorship of works by Wright and other American authors in the United States
- Wright's aesthetic and poetics
- Wright’s image of the South
- Verbal and visual promotion of Wright's works from 1938 to the present
- Shifting assumptions in Wright scholarship
- Reassessment of gender issues in Wright's fiction and non-fiction
- Wright and the traditions of Black Nationalism
- Wright’s poetry
Other topics that illuminate Wright's continuing importance in African American and American letters are welcomed. Papers should be so designed that presentation does not exceed 25 minutes.
Queries and abstracts for proposed papers should be sent to Professor Wilfred D. Samuels, Department of English, University of Utah 255 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 3500, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, or wilfred.samuels@utah.edu no later than October 31, 2008.
The deadline for submitting accepted papers is February 1, 2009. Accepted papers will be considered for publication as part of the symposium proceedings. See www.conference.utah.edu/rws for more details.
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