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Call for papers

Madam - The research group Transcultures (French University of the Pacific) and the C.O.R.A.I.L. Association will jointly hold an international multidis ciplinary colloquium in Noumea (University Centre of New Caledonia) from 26 - 28th November on the topic: Writing : at the crossroads of islands, at the crossroads of languages.

New Caledonian authors and other writ ers - from the West Indies, from the South Pacific and from the Indian Ocean - will attend the colloquium and develop their

own experiences of writing in the islands; among them, Subramani and Shakuntala Boolell.

These cross approaches to contacts between languages and human groups will make up the leading thread to varied inter rogations on yesterday’s and today’s speeches in the literary fields (political speeches, writing in the legal, administra tive and medical domains, etc).

Need we recall that 1998 stands as a symbolical date for the insular space: 150th anniversary of the repeal of slavery in the French West Indies, centenary of the end of Spanish colonisation?

All this justifies the new area of the 1998 colloquium, wide open to the winds of the global world.

All offers of papers - in French or in English - should include a detailed summa ry of 500 words that will be transmitted to a reading committee.

The papers accepted, along with a sum mary of 100 words (with a translation in either French or English), will be pub lished in the yearly Act of the Colloquium.

Please note that there is an upper limit of 25 minutes for all speeches at the collo quium.

The deadline for offers of papers with the 500-word summary is September 30, 1998. The 100-word summaries are expected for October 15, 1998 (diskette +printed article), so that they can be hand ed out to people attending the colloquium.

Participants in the colloquium are requested to bring their fully corrected text on a diskette ( 3 or 5 inches, PC or Apple) All mail should be sent to Dominique, President of C.0.R.A.1.L and Director of Transcultures: Dominique JOUVE 8, rue Leonard de Vinci 98800 Noumea. New Caledonia Tel/Fax: (687)25-95-27

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