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CALL FOR PAPERS</font></font>
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Pre-, Post-, and Neo- Colonialisms:</font></font>
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Wole Soyinka and Contemporary Theatre</font></font>
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October 19-21, 2001</font></font>
<p><font face="Californian FB">The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at
the University of Toronto is presenting an international conference, Pre-,
Post-,</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">and Neo- Colonialisms: Wole Soyinka and
Contemporary Theatre, October 19-21 2001.</font>
<p><font face="Californian FB">The conference aims to bring together the
best of African and world dramatic scholarship, to debate issues of colonialism
and</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">neo-colonialism in Africa and beyond, and
to locate the intersection of Soyinka’s dramatic and theoretical writings
with</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">urgent debates in contemporary theatrical
scholarship/practice. This could include, but is not limited to:</font>
<p><font face="Californian FB">· Canonization: formation and revision
of canons; the place of Soyinka in Western, African and world dramatic
canons</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">· Identity: post-colonial, postmodern
and post-structuralist issues of identity in Western and African scholarship</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">· Language: Bilingualism in performance;
use of Pidgin or Creole languages; writing post-coloniality</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">· Performing Diaspora: interculturalism
and performance</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">· Feminism / Womanism: debates on
global feminism; woman as symbol in post-colonial writing</font>
<p><font face="Californian FB">All proposals should, however, contribute
to a debate on the theoretical and/or dramatic writings of Wole Soyinka.</font>
<p><font face="Californian FB"> Invited speakers include Tejumola
Olaniyan, Martin Banham, Brian Singleton, Don Rubin, Olakunle George, Molara</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">Ogundipe, James Gibbs, Ted Chamberlin,
Yvonne Brewster, Laura Moss, Dapo Adelugba, Helen Tiffin, and Gareth Griffiths,</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">Christopher Balme, Stephen Slemon and Abena
Busia.</font>
<p><font face="Californian FB">Papers should be 20-25 minutes in length.
Selected proceedings will be published.</font>
<p><font face="Californian FB">Abstracts of 250 words for papers and workshops
should reach the convenors by March 15, 2001. Abstracts and inquiries</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">should be addressed to:</font>
<p><font face="Californian FB">Lisa Fitzpatrick,</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University
of Toronto,</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">214 College Street, Toronto, Ontario
M5T 2Z9, CANADA</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">Email: SoyinkaConference@yahoo.com</font>
<br><font face="Californian FB">Fax: 416-971-1378</font>
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