CFP: Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation BAAS Panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' 5-7 July 2017, Newcastle, UK Contributions are invited for a BAAS panel at 'English: Shared Futures,' a large-scale conference spanning across the discipline. The panel 'Writing Shared Futures: African American Literature and Racialisation' will explore the significances of, and engagements with, racialisation in post-Civil Rights writing by African Americans. It will seek to ask how understandings of racialisation are connected with understandings of the future, and to examine the ways in which literary texts have questioned categories and binaries of race and have complicated views of the processes by which racial identity comes into being. Such processes might be made visible in contexts such as: migration and immigration multi-ethnic coalitions intersectional politics future worlds internationalism coming of age narratives popular culture/music/sport contemporary politics, especially the Obama years new technologies and social media Possible writers include […]