Mahogany Anais
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Post Number: 226 Registered: 01-2005
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THE 2006 BRONZEVILLE LITERARY ARTS FESTIVAL In conjunction with The Nommo Gathering Black Writers Collective Issues a CALL FOR PAPERS "From Zora to Zane: The Black Female Image in Contemporary Fiction" The Bronzeville Literary Arts Festival will be held at Northeastern IL University's Jacob Carruthers Center For Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oakwood Blvd. in Chicago, IL, USA on July 21 - 23, 2006. This historic event also includes an outdoor fête of arts activity and celebration. It is free and open to the general public. Developed in the 1920s as a result of the Great Migration, "Bronzeville" is a historically rich and culturally vibrant African American community in Chicago. It was central to the nurturing of many arts legends including Oscar Micheaux, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, Nat King Cole, Muddy Waters, Kartherine Dunham, Margaret Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, Sam Cooke, Langston Hughes, Ida B. Wells, Thomas Dorsey, and many others. Central to the festival's mission is to examine the community's literary and arts heritage and to further affirm the outstanding African American local, national and international contributions to the arts. The conclave will also provide a forum for writers, scholars and artists of African descent to discuss critical socio-political and cultural issues of relevance to Black people throughout the Diaspora. In addition the Festival supports freedom of speech and artistic expression as a form of political and social advocacy. It seeks to nourish the development of critical thinkers, progressive writers, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers and publishers in the United States. The Festival occasion will be marked by a number of workshops and special symposiums featuring scholars and artists from throughout the country. One such symposium, "From Zora to Zane: The Black Female Image in Contemporary Fiction," will examine Black female representation in contemporary fiction, art and media between 1935 and 2005. Central to the discussion will be the works of famed writer Zora Neal Hurston and contemporary author "Zane." Papers will focus on how Black female writers present Black women characters; the role of the arts and media in shaping the image Black women; an examination of African American female stereotypes from "mammy to gold-digger to hip hop video vixen;" and how Black women are portrayed in today's literature, art, music and media. PAPER SUBMISSION: E-mail your 300 words or less abstract or completed manuscript of 2,000 words or less to The Nommo Gathering, Inc. at nommoeditor@yahoo.com Poetry, prose and art will be taken under consideration. The deadline for a completed manuscript is December 15, 2005. Be sure to include the appropriate contact information with your work. Papers should be submitted in RTF, Microsoft Word or Word Perfect format. We will e-mail you with a notification of acceptance or rejection within three weeks. Authors will invited at their own expense to present their work during the Bronzeville Literary Arts Festival. Selected works will also be considered for publication in "KALIMA!" an anthology of the Nommo Gathering Black Writers Collective, slated for publication in Spring 2007. Please direct all correspondence to the attention of: The Editors "FROM ZORA TO ZANE" The Nommo Gathering Black Writers Collective 3473 S. King Drive, Suite #376 Chicago, IL 60616-4108 Email: nommoeditor@yahoo.com
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