For the Options for Teaching series, the Publications Committee of the Modern Languages Association has approved development of the volume Teaching the Literatures of the Hispanic Caribbean, edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Essay proposals are invited for the following projected sections of the volume: (1) “Historical and Theoretical Perspectives” (the relation between salient texts and Hispanic Caribbean history, including notions of indigeneity, colonialism, slavery and the plantation, nationalism, and the impact of globalization); (2) “Material and Performative Contexts” (contemporary theory and its possible application to teaching and criticism; questions of genre and form, identity and migration, interdisciplinarity and intertextuality, feminism, postcolonialism and postmodernism, and cultural studies; interrelations of literature and culture, including aspects of religion, music, folk culture, the oral traditions, ritual and performance, and dance); (3) “Authors and Texts” (critical studies of individual or small groups of authors and texts informed by contemporary theoretical approaches, including essays on diasporic Hispanic Caribbean authors); and (4) “Course Contexts” (teaching practices at various levels, including discussion of Web and audiovisual resources, electronic databases, anthologies, and textbooks). One-page proposals for specific essays should be sent by 15 December 2009 to Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (liparavisini@vassar.edu).
