JEAL Issue 7 (2017)
---CALL FOR PAPERS
The Journal of Ethnic
American Literature , Issue 7 (2017), guest-edited by Maryemma Graham and
Jerry W. Ward, Jr. will focus on the works of Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker. The editors are especially interested in
scholarly articles on the following topics:
·
Walker's essays and autobiographical writing
(journals)
·
Report from Part One and Report from Part Two
·
Jubilee
·
Maud
Martha
·
Walker's dialogue with Nikki Giovanni in Poetic Equation
·
Brooks, Walker, and African American ballad and
sonnet traditions
·
Walker and African American Humanism
·
Walker's biographical writing: Richard Wright
and Sister Thea Bowman
·
Folklore in the poetry of Brooks and Walker
·
The critical reception of Brooks and Walker
·
Walker and Literary Property Rights: The Case
Against Alex Haley's Roots
·
Print history and works by Brooks and Walker
·
Brooks and children's literature
·
Bibliographic essays on the papers of Brooks and
Walker
·
Digital humanities and pedagogy in the study of
Brooks and Walker
·
Brooks, Walker and narrative poetry
One-page
abstracts should be emailed to Maryemma Graham
(mgraham@ku.edu) and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (jerry.ward31@hotmail.com) by March 1, 2016.
The
deadline for final drafts of accepted articles is December 31, 2016.
Published
annually, JEAL is a referred
scholarly journal which welcomes articles based on new research and criticism
in ethnic American literatures.
