ABSTRACT |
This round table intends to articulate the manifold ways in which these
contents are inscribed in the current University curricula and to
suggest new approaches for their incorporation to the forthcoming
curricula changes. The main aspects which will be discussed by the
participants will involve the relevance of these studies for the future
of English studies, mainly foregrounding their interdisciplinary
approach, the development in mainstream writing, new publishers and
anthologies; and the suggestions of teaching materials. Each of the
participants will then address specific issues such as the reception and
influence of African American texts/authors, together with the revision
and selection involved in the process of canon creation undertaken in
the Spanish curricula; the intersection of African Canadian writing with
African American and the Caribbean diasporas versus the indigenous
approach; the remapping of the Black Atlantic to include Spain and the
response to Spain from lettered and non-lettered African American and
African visitors to Spain in the 20th C., from Arturo Schomburg to
Chester Himes, via Langston Hughes, the 90 or so black Abraham Lincoln
volunteers in the Civil War, Richard Wright, etc.; and the influence of
African writing on the English, and French diasporas.
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