Sunday, August 31, 2014
Sweden, Stockholm, October 2-4
An International Conference in Stockholm Sweden
I’ll be there to speak of Booker T.
Washington
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS A PAMPHLET
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Booker T. Washington’s autobiography Up from Slavery is famous because it is
a milestone on the road to black emancipation in the USA
It covers the period from a few years
before the Civil War to 2001. It covers the author’s infancy, youth and adult
age, his education mostly at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, his
first years of teaching in West Virginia, his teaching in Hampton (Indians and
night classes) and then essentially the creation, opening and development of
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute with his campaign for the
elevation of the black race in the USA.
This autobiography is in fact a
pamphlet that does not specify questions about the antebellum slavery period he
experienced, about his black slave mother and white “unknown” father, about the
extreme exploitation of blacks in West
Virginia
He negates the existence of the Ku
Klux Klan after Reconstruction. He hardly mentions the important racial riots
of the end of the 19th century, particularly Wilmington , North Carolina
I will concentrate on his motivations
as they can appear in the book and the contradiction it raises when compared to
Solomon Northup Twelve Years A Slave,
and the inspiration it represents for Marcus Garvey later on. How can Booker T.
Washington be turned into a founding father of Marcus Garvey’s thought by
Marcus Garvey himself when we know the latter advocated race purity, absolute
refusal of segregation, separate and equal development at world level and an
agreement with the Ku Klux Klan.
This autobiography was a way for
Booker T. Washington to promote his own vision of racial integration that was a
positive version of Jim-Crowism.
An International Conference in Stockholm Sweden
Autobiography
Södertörn University, Stockholm, 2-4
October, 2014
You are cordially invited to this international conference on autobiography organized by the English Department.
You are cordially invited to this international conference on autobiography organized by the English Department.
Although autobiographical
writing has ancient origins, the term 'autobiography' itself has only been in
use since the late eighteenth century. Theories about autobiographical writing
have been developed even more recently. Whereas early autobiographical writing
was often either self-celebrating (res gestae) or self-justifying (apologiae),
Augustine's Confessions marked a turning point. The contemporary study of
autobiography encompasses a broad variety of research perspectives. This
interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore a broad variety of ideas within
the field of autobiography. We invite papers and presentations on the following
or related topics:
·
Spiritual
Autobiographies
·
Self-representational
Writing
·
Online
Writing of the Self
·
Fictional
Autobiographies
·
Fake
Autobiographies
·
Autofiction
·
Auto-ethnographies
·
Autobiography
in Cartoons
·
Autobiography
in Dance and Film
·
Postcolonial
Autobiography
·
Celebrity
Autobiographies
·
Autobiography
and Gender
·
Indigenous
Autobiography
·
Autobiographies
of 'ordinary people'
·
Autobiogeography
·
Therapeutic
autobiography
·
Autobiography
in Translation
Conference Organizers:
Kerstin
Shands, Professor of
English, Södertörn University, Stockholm
Giulia Grillo Mikrut, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland, Australia
Giulia Grillo Mikrut, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland, Australia
Steering Group:
Dr.
Kerstin Shands,
Södertörn University, Stockholm
Dr. Harriet Sharp, Södertörn University, Stockholm
Giulia Grillo Mikrut, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland
Dr. Wim Van Moer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dr. Karen Meyers-Ferreira, University of Swaziland
Dr. Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik, Banaras Hindu University
Dr. Harriet Sharp, Södertörn University, Stockholm
Giulia Grillo Mikrut, PhD Candidate, University of Queensland
Dr. Wim Van Moer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dr. Karen Meyers-Ferreira, University of Swaziland
Dr. Dipti Ranjan Pattanaik, Banaras Hindu University
Preliminary
List of Participants - Autobiography conference - 2-4 Oct 2014
1. Agnieszka Rzepa, Adam
Mickiewicz University ,
Poznan , Poland
2. Anaïs Fusaro, University of St Andrews
3. Andrew James, Meiji
University , Tokyo , Japan
4. Andrew Miller, Flinders University , South Australia
5. Anna Helle, University of Jyväskylä , Finland
6. Anna Hollsten, University of Helsinki
7. Anne Coudreuse, University Paris
8. Anneli Meriläinen-Hyvärinen, University of Oulu , Finland
9. Aparajita Nanda, University
of California , Berkeley
10. Apostolos Lampropoulos, University of Cyprus
and University of
Pennsylvania
11. Ari J., Finland
12. Arnaud Schmitt, University of Bordeaux , France
13. Belinda Hilton, Griffith
University Gold Coast , Australia
14. Carolina
Villalba, University
of Miami
15. Catharine Frances, University of Central
Lancashire
16. Christine
Savinel, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle-Paris 3
17. Claire
Larsonneur, University Paris 8
18. Claude
Desmarais, UBC, Kelowna, BC, Canada
19. Dagmara
Drewniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
20. D.R. Pattanaik, Banaras Hindu University , India
21. Daniel Warzecha, Charles-de-Gaulle
Lille 3 University
22.
Daniela Chana, Independent Scholar, Vienna ,
Austria
23. Danielle Hall, Leeds Metropolitan
University
24. Doris G. Eibl, University of Innsbruck , Austria
25. Ebere Nnenna Agugbue Nweze, Botkyrka Folkhögskola , Sweden
26. Elisabeth
Bouzonviller, Jean Monnet University, St-Etienne, Universités de Lyon, France
27. Eva Norrman, Åbo Akademi University , Finland
28. Eva-Sabine Zehelein, University of Regensburg
29. Filip
Buyse, Université Paris Panthéon - Sorbonne
30. Floriane Reviron-Piégay, University of St Etienne , France
31. Giulia Grillo Mikrut, University of Queensland , Australia
32. Guy
Galazka, Paris Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
33. Hans Vandevoorde, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel
34. Hertha D. Sweet Wong, University of California ,
Berkeley
35. Heta Marttinen, University of Jyväskylä , Finland
36. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University
37. Jo Woodiwiss, University of Huddersfield
38. Ioanna Mylonaki, University of Cologne
39. Jacques
Coulardeau, CEGID, Paris, and Synopsis Paie, Nice
40. John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University , California
41. Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland
42. Karen Stockham, University
of St Mark and St John
43.
Karoliina Kähmi, University of
Jyväskylä , Finland
44. Katarzyna Macedulska, Adam Mickiewicz
University , Poznan , Poland
45. Katja Sarkowsky, WWU Münster , Germany
46. Kerstin Shands, Södertörn University
47. Kevin Binfield, Murray State University , USA
48. Kirsi Tuohela, University of Turku , Finland
49. Konrad Gunesch, Higher Colleges of
Technology, Sharjah , United Arab Emirates
50. Lamia
Mokrane, Université Nice, France
51. Laura
Castor, University of Tromsø
52. Laure de
Nervaux-Gavoty, Université Paris-Est Créteil
53. Leni Van Goidsenhoven, Catholic University of Leuven , Belgium
54. Lut
Missinne, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
55. Lynn Penrod, University of Alberta , Canada
56. Manuel Brito, University of La
57. Margaret Daymond, University of KwaZulu-Natal
58. Martina Sias, Pisa University, Italy
59. Matilde Martín González, Universidad de La Laguna
60. Matthieu
Sergier, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles & Université Catholique de
Louvain
61. Melissa Schuh, Queen Mary University of
London
62. Michael Sheringham, Oxford University
63. Mikołaj Wiśniewski, Warsaw School
64. Nadja Soudunsaari, University of Lapland , Finland
65. Nicholas B,
UK
66. Nicole Terrien, Université Rennes 2
67.
Nina Työlahti, University of Oulu , in Finland
68. Palina Urban, University of Oxford
69. Pamela J. Rader, University
of Colorado at Boulder
70. Pascale Antolin, Bordeaux Montaigne
University
71. Patrick Doherty, University of Central
Lancashire
72. Patrick Hayes, Oxford University
73. Phil Cohen, Birkbeck and the University of East London
74. Piotr Sobolczyk, Institute of Literary
Research, Polish Academy
75. Priya Jha, University of Redlands
76. Rachel Knighton, The University of Cambridge
77. Sara Eriksson, Universität Stockholm
78. Seana Kozar, University of Bristol
79.
Seraphima Kennedy, Goldsmiths, University
of London
80. Sophie Chapuis, L'Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne
81. Tanja Reiffenrath, University of Paderborn , Germany
82. Tracy Ferrell, University
of Colorado , Boulder
83. Valérie Baisnée, University of Paris
84. Wim Van Moer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Belgium
85. Yair Seltenreich, Tel
Hai College
and Ben Gurion University , Israel
86.
Zachari Duncalf, University
of Strathclyde
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:32 PM 
