ANA Holds International Conference In Ebonyi
By Yemi Adebisi-May 19, 2018
The Association of Nigerian Authors
(ANA), in collaboration with Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (FUNAI),
Ebonyi State will hold an international conference and creative workshop at the
university hall, between June 18 and 19, with the theme: Expanding Frontiers:
Nigeria’s Creative Writing in the 21st Century.
In a communiqué signed by Prof.
G.M.T. Emezue, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, FUNAI and Ofonime Inyang, ANA
General Secretary, the conference will provide an enabling environment for
scholars to reassess the evolutionary trend in Nigerian literature.
“The twenty-first century in Nigeria
has witnessed an avalanche of creative writing in all the genres of literature
and beyond. More than ever before, this period has shown that creative writing
and critical practices offer greater possibilities for social re-engineering
and meaningful mediation in public spaces. This expansion is witnessed in the
steady growth of the list of names of Nigerians associated with national and
international acclaim.
“The ‘Expanding Frontiers’
conference provides scholars the opportunity to articulate as well as
interrogate these new trends and the stylistic evolutions of Nigerian
literature in the 21st century,” it reads partly.
Among other things, the conference
tends to answer such questions as: In what ways do the thematic preoccupations
of the new literatures of the 21st century (both in the indigenous and foreign
languages) differ from the previous generations of creative writing in Nigeria
or Africa?
In what ways do the styles and
methodologies of Nigeria’s literatures of the 21st century differ from literary
practices of the past?
How have the new technologies and
new media affected the practices, reception and disseminations of literary
practices in Nigeria and beyond?
Interested contributors have been
urged to register and submit abstracts (which may be comparative in approach)
of 250 to 300 words to the conference portal –
www.ana-funai.megaconferences.com.
Workshop participants are also expected to
register online at the same website. Deadline for submission of abstract and
early bird registration is May 2018.
