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FRONTIERS

FREEDOM, RESISTANCE, AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES IN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES π Expanding the Frontier of Technology in the Classroom π Creative Service Learning Projects for World Languages π Expanding the Frontier of U.S. Cultures:

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π The Frontier in U.S. Literature and Film π Inter-American Migrations and the Frontier of

Teaching/Interpreting Chicano Literature and Film π Interdisciplinary Approaches to Afro-Latino/a Expressions in the Diaspora π Speculative Fiction and Elements of Freedom, Resistance, and Transnational Identities π Authors as Translators and/or Works in Translation and Resistance Movements π Wartime Resistance in Literature and Language π Transnational Migrations and Contacts in Literature π Migrations and Transnational Identities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures π Examining Films that Depict Migrations and Transnational Identities π Frontier and Renegotiation of Latino/Afro-Latino Identities and Languages in the U.S. π Ocean, Sea, and River as Rites/Rights of Passage in Francophone/Germanic/Haitian/ Hispanophone Literature and Film π Rivers as Frontiers and Myths of Foundations in African and African Diaspora Literatures

Languages in the National Identity Narratives in South and Central America and the Caribbean π Freedom and Resistance in Narratives of Liberation and/or Slave Narratives π Texas Authors, Frontier, and the Literature of the American Southwest π Erasing the Frontier of Time in Spanish and Latin American/Francophone /Germanic Literature/Lusophone Literature π Frontier, Resistance, and Freedom in Afro-Hispanic/Afro-Brazilian/ Francophone/Afro-German Literature and Film π Memory, History and Identity: Representations of Slavery in Contemporary Latin American/Francophone/Germanic Literature π Afro-Mexicans: The Forgotten Element in Mexico’s History π The African Diaspora through the Eyes of Feminine Afro-Latino/Francophone/Afro-Germanic Writers π Ancestral and Feminist Memory in Black Brazilian Women’s Writing

Send individual and panel proposals to:

Send special session proposals to:

Dr. Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper (ENGLISH LANGUAGE REPRESENTATIVE) [email protected] Dr. Margaret Morris (FOREIGN LANGUAGE REPRESENTATIVE) [email protected]

(FOR ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS AND STANDING COMMITTEES ONLY)

Convention Location

Dr. Clément Akassi (PROGRAM CHAIR) [email protected]

DE A D L INE September 15, 2014

SHERATON DALLAS HOTEL | 400 N. Olive Street, Dallas, Texas 75201 (214) 922-8000 | Reservations: 1-888-627-8191 | Website: www.sheraton.com/dallashotel Early Bird Room Rate: $169 (THROUGH MARCH 9 OR UNTIL THE ROOM BLOCK IS SOLD-OUT)

COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION www.clascholars.org The College Language Association, founded in 1937 by a group of Black scholars and educators, is an organization of college teachers of English and foreign languages, which serves the academic, scholarly, and professional interests of its members and the collegiate communities they represent. Since 1957 the Association has published the CLA Journal, a quarterly publication featuring scholarly research and reviews of books in the areas of language, literature, linguistics, and pedagogy.

ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS The Langston Hughes Society The Middle Atlantic Writers Association The Zora Neale Hurston Society The Richard Wright Circle The Charles W. Chesnutt Association The Alice Childress Society The Georgiana Simpson Society

Host Institution S OUT H E R N ME T H OD IS T UNIV E R S IT Y

MEMBERSHIP FEES (January 1st - December 31st) Individual $80 Student $55 Life $500 Retiree $55 Institutional $200

CONVENTION FEES PRE-REGISTRATION $130 (includes banquet) Students/Retirees $115 ON-SITE REGISTRATION $145 Students/Retirees $130

Pay online at www.clascholars.org OR mail all fees to: Dr. Yakini Kemp, Treasurer, P.O. BOX 38515, Tallahassee, FL 32315 850-599-3737; Email: [email protected] Membership dues must be paid by February 1, 2015 for names to appear on program.