Cfp: "Rethinking the Mangrove," 2nd Symposium Critical Practices in Caribbean Cultural Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Oct. 15-17, 2009.

'Rethinking the Mangrove' is an invitation to reconceptualize Caribbeanness beyond the limitations of nation, language and culture, focusing on the crosscurrents that traverse the multiple and overlapping spaces and subjectivities of the Caribbean. The roots of the mangrove, which hang above the water, evoke a Caribbean alternative to an ethno-linguistically monolithic ideal of identity symbolized by the terrestrial root. This conference solicits papers and panels in English, Spanish and French from across humanistic and scientific disciplines that explore notions of "Caribbeanness," "Antillanismo" or "Antillanité" or any of its many aspects. We invite paper and panel proposals in the following areas: Cultural theory of the Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean Caribbean anthropologies, histories and/or literatures Gender, sexuality and Caribbean cultural studies Caribbean diasporas and migrations Caribbean popular culture Ecologies of the Caribbean archipelago (Post)foundational voices of Caribbean cultural studies (Counter)national discourses of the Caribbean Colonialism, neocolonialism andpostcolonialism in the Caribbean Caribbean integration initiatives (political, economic, cultural) Atlantic studies and the Caribbean Discourses of race in the Caribbean Historical legacies of slavery in the Caribbean Afrodiasporic cultures and identities in the Caribbean Transcaribbean cultural expression Latin American/Latino cultures and the Caribbean Visual arts in the Caribbean Visit the conference hompage here: http://academic.uprm.edu/manglar/.