North American Ethnic Literatures in the 21st Century: Intersectional / Transatlantic Perspectives

The aim of this international symposium is to augment and amplify ongoing transatlantic conversations in the fields of ethnic minority literatures and critical race theory in North America that are reconsidering terms such as race, ethnicity, indigeneity, identity, mobility, community, solidarity, and futurity, and to explore 21st-century literary texts through an intersectional lens. In a series of thematic panels, we will examine these shifting critical, literary, and pedagogical practices paying special attention to the Obama and Trump eras in a local, national, hemispheric, and global context.

The symposium is organized by the research group LENA: North American Ethnic Literatures in a Global Context (Universitat de València-Universitat Jaume I) and sponsored by the Generalitat Valenciana (Proyecto I+D+i “Reconfiguraciones de género, raza y clase social en la literatura étnica norteamericana de la era Obama/Trump” – GV/AICO/2021/249). Collaborating entities include the Unesco Chair on Slavery and Afrodescendancy at Universitat Jaume I and the Western Literature Association.

More information about the ongoing activities and projects of the research group LENA can be found at https://www.uv.es/lenaval.