New Extended Deadline
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1999*****
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<bold><bigger>Stanford University's Black Arts Quarterly
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</bigger></bold>CURRENTLY ACCEPTING students' critical and meditative
work on African
performance in addition to both original work and visual arts
submissions.
We invite a variety of interpretations of performance including
visual and literary art, plays and monolouges. We also encourage work
on the
changing relationship Diasporans have to African performances, what
performance means to the Diasporan and Continental Africans who make
it
happen, and performance theories of African cultural and theatre arts:
*Production/projection of African identity through television and
motion
pictures and on the dramatic stage
*Migrations of art forms/genres, such as juju, jazz, community theatre
and
dance traditions, drumming circles, hair designing and hair wrapping
*New trends in African expressive culture; genre development
*African theater performances & the mixed race cast
*Politics and locations of African performance space
*Constituting and defining "African performance" and 'African
identity'
*How African cultural forms reflect notions of African identity
*Interdisciplinary approaches, for example dramatic elements in field
work for
social sciences and history, anthropology and sociology
*African Performance and the traveling subject
*Comparative perspectives brought to African
performativity:inter-ethnic,
transnational, cross-cultural, as well as Continental-Diasporan and
comparative African diasporas
*How do African elements figure within the social and cutlural life of
Africans around the world?
*Are there specific performative elements in African art and theatre
that
project ideas of blackness? Of protest? In what contexts?
*With what performative elements do African performances work for
political
change?
*What issues and performative elements are shared by Continental and
Diasporan performances and/or within different diasporan
performances?
<bold>DON'T DELAY; DEADLINE: January 19, 1999
</bold>Acceptable lengths: tiny (1000 words or less) which may be
faxed to (650)
723-6441, short (1300-2300 words), full-length (3000-5300 words). All
text
submissions subject to editorial alteration. Visual
submissions--photography,
scannings or high quality photocopies--most welcome. If visual
submission
illustrates a literary submission, include caption which specifies
title,
subject and source, especially URL if obtained from a website. All
submissions must include brief bio identifying your name, respective
institution, degree program and area(s) of interest and
specialization.
Access back issues on our webpg: www.stanford.edu/group/CBPA/BAQ.html
We prefer manuscripts typed, sent by email or on Mac disc in Microsoft
word
6.0 or lower. Please retain copies; no guaranteed returns after
review.
See past issues of the BAQ on our webpg:
www.stanford.edu/group/CBPA/BAQ.html
SUBMIT TO or CONTACT:
Elena Becks
PHONE (650) 723-4402
EMAIL Lenochka@leland.stanford.edu
FAX: 650-723-6441
US POST BAQ, CBPA, Harmony House, 561 Lomita Drive, Stanford
University,
Stanford ,California 94305
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