Subject: | Happy New Year! |
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Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:30:20 -0500 |
From: | Saine, Abdoulaye <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | Community of Gambianist Scholars <[log in to unmask]> |
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Greetings and Happy New Year! Hope the New
Year brings each
of you abundant health and cheer.
Please find below a call for papers on the
writings of one
of our own- Dr. Tijan Sallah.
Congratulations Tijan, this is much deserved
recognition.
Best,
Abdoulaye
CALL
FOR
CONTRIBUTIONS
TWENTY-ONE
NOTES OF KORA: EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON THE
WRITINGS OF TIJAN M.
SALLAH
Contributions are invited from scholars and
critics of
Gambian and African literature to a proposed book of essays on
the writings of
Tijan M. Sallah, the Gambian poet, essayist and short story
writer.
The subject is
the second best
known writer from The Gambia after Lenrie Peters, and a notable
voice in
contemporary African literature. To date, Sallah has published
nine books:
three collections of poetry, a book of selected poetry, a volume
of short
stories, two edited anthologies of poetry (the second one with
Tanure Ojaide,
the Nigerian poet), a literary biography of Chinua Achebe, the
Nigerian
novelist (co-authored with Ngozi Okonjo Iweala), and an
ethnographic book on
the Wolof, the dominant ethnic group of the Senegambian people.
His works have
also appeared in several major poetry and short story
anthologies. Examples
include Charles Larson’s (ed.) Under African Skies (Farrar,
Straus
& Giroux), Achebe and Innes’s (eds.) Contemporary
African Short
Stories (Heinemann AWS) and Ulli Beier and Gerald Moore’s
Modern
African Poetry (Penguin).
Tentatively
titled Twenty-One
Notes of Kora: Emerging Perspectives on the Writings of Tijan
M. Sallah,
the book, when published, will represent the first extended work
of critical
writings both on the author and on Gambian literature.
Contributions can
be on Tijan Sallah’s background, the tradition of Gambian and
Senegambian
writings, Tijan Sallah’s poetry, short stories, literary
biography,
edited anthologies, published essays, and finally his
ethnographic writing on
Wolof. They can also approach Sallah’s works from comparative
perspectives. Of interest will be those which compare him with
other Gambian
writers (including Lenrie Peters and Ebou Dibba), with other
African writers,
and with other writers from the African diaspora. Finally,
interviews conducted
with Tijan Sallah in the past will also be considered for
publication.
Contributions following an MLA style of referencing, (with short
titles and
page references included immediately after each citation in the
body of the
work and a list of works cited compiled at the end of the essay)
and which
should not be more than 6000 words should be sent as attachments
to emails
addressed to the editor of the volume. Deadline is May 31, 2011.
Wumi Raji, Ph. D (Editor)
Department of Dramatic Arts
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile Ife, Nigeria
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