The Caribbean Studies Center of the Casa de las Américas announces the International Competition for young students and researchers Caliban, origen y permanencia de un símbolo (Caliban: the origin and the permanence of a symbol), on the occasion of half a century of “The Pleasures of Exile” by Georges Lamming and forty years of the essay “Caliban” by Roberto Fernández Retamar.
After the writer from Barbados entered the symbol into Caribbean cultural studies in the 1960s, there have been a myriad of interpretations and reflections issuing from the outstanding voices of the region’s philosophy and literature. In his work, Lanning sketches the principal questions deriving from the Caribbean colonial condition, as perceived in the conceptual character of Caliban. Each one of these today reveals itself as open theoretical keys, available to a legion of reinterpretation from the contemporary stage.
Thus, analyses might include topics such as colony-metropolis relations, centre-periphery dynamics, slavery and freedom, the condition of cimarronaje, rebellion and revolution; the processes of de-colonization, migration, exile and Diaspora; violence, resistance and marginality; phenomena of culture, race, religious beliefs, diversity, gender and sexuality; or those associated with language, oral tradition and memory.
Participants: Open to students and researchers under the age of 35. The date of birth shall be documented via a photocopy of the participant’s ID document or passport.
Papers: Papers will be accepted in French, English or Spanish, depending on the participant’s mother tongue, and have the following requisites:
- 25 to 30 pages in length
- Times New Roman 12 font, using 1.5 spacing
- pdf format(not able to be modified)
Sending Work:
-Electronically to: caliban2010@casa.cult.cu
The registration form is attached to this announcement on the Casa de las Américas website: www.casadelasamericas.org
The identity document confirming the date of birth shall be an electronic attachment.
-Mail to:
Caliban International Competition:
origin and permanence of a symbol
Centro de Estudios del Caribe.
Casa de las Américas.
Calle 3ra esq. G, No 52, Vedado,
Plaza de la Revolución.
CP.10400
Papers shall be accompanied by a closed envelope bearing the nom-de-plume or device as identification which shall enclose the registration form and the photocopy of the identity document attesting to the date of birth.
- Personal delivery at the Casa de las Américas headquarters:
Papers shall be accompanied by a closed envelope bearing the nom-de-plume or device as identification which shall enclose the registration form and the photocopy of the identity document attesting to the date of birth.
Receipt of Papers: Papers and pertinent documents shall be received no later than October 1st, 2011.
Competition Results: The results shall be released in the month of December of 2011.
Judges: There will be a panel of international judges in the three languages announced in the competition.
Awards: There shall be single awards in each one of the languages of the participants. Prize-winning essays shall be published by the Casa de las Américas Centre for Studies in their original languages and the authors shall receive a collection of the publications of the Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas. The Embassy of Barbados in Cuba, CARICOM and ALBA shall also grant a sum of $ 500.00 USD for each of the prize-winning papers in the English, French and Spanish languages, respectively.
Documentation: We place at the disposition of the participants an extensive bibliography put together by the Casa de las Américas Library; this may be accessed through: http://expocaliban.casa.cult.cu
Questions: Any possible questions having to do with the Competition may be addressed to the following E-mail address: caribe1@casa.cult.cu or by telephone to 8382710.
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