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Mahogany Anais
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Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 02:51 pm:

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 fęte 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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