<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-2619533844593023927m_-4222654586966549992gmail-docs-internal-guid-c693b669-447f-794e-01c4-3c2b35d0c229"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(85,85,85);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues, </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are delighted to announce a call for proposals for </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When Creole and Spanish Collide: Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a special issue of Brill’s Caribbean Series. The proposal deadline is</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> August 31, 2017</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; the paper deadline is </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 28, 2018</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please spread the word among interested colleagues.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions can be made at: </span><a href="https://creolescollide.wixsites.com/proposals" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Proxima Nova";font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://creolescollide.wixsite<wbr>.com/proposals</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for part in helping us mobilize this project.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Glenda Leung</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Miki Loschky</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Harald Leusmann</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Editors)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Email:  </span><a href="mailto:creoles.collide@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Proxima Nova";font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">creoles.collide@gmail.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CFP and submissions:  </span><a href="https://creolescollide.wixsites.com/proposals" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Proxima Nova";font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://creolescollide.wixsit<wbr>e.com/proposals</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">==============================<wbr>==============================<wbr>============</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/owIipSOrODxB8CbsM_B2a_G1qO8BabODp8ZcFBzbOPd7fmdHXF9rYEF06XQeCy61XbYFCsnyNptp8L-ZFtxDSFe4C4CVg22SwiWWU1HE0yIhTWQNaacGo4BYmXaQX6_e1Fg-zTKx" width="409" height="654" style="border:none" alt="BRILL - visual book proposal.png"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Chapter Proposals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brill’s Caribbean Series</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When Creole and Spanish Collide: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions: </span><a href="https://creolescollide.wixsites.com/proposals" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://creolescollide.wixsite<wbr>.com/proposals</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Email:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="m_-2619533844593023927m_-4222654586966549992gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span></span><a href="mailto:creoles.collide@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">creoles.collide@gmail.com</span></a></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Editors </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Glenda-Alicia Leung (Hermann-Paul School of Languages, University of Freiburg)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Miki Loschky (Graduate School of Education, Touro College)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Harald Leusmann (Ball State University)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Invitation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are delighted to announce a call for proposals for </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When Creole and Spanish Collide: Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a special issue of Brill’s Caribbean Series. The proposal deadline is</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> August 31, 2017</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; the paper deadline is </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 28, 2018</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Overview</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The collective Caribbean encounter is a juxtaposition of human experiences: sorrow and joy, fragmentation and syncretism, displacement and home. The Caribbean is a canvas of crossings where people come and go, whether of free will or in bondage, in search of riches or exiled from some far away Motherland. The children of the Caribbean suffer wanderlust. They seek greener pastures and with every adventure become degrees removed in the diaspora. Despite drift and shift, linguistic and cultural remembrance is slow to surrender to erasure.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Popularly imagined, the Caribbean invokes images of islands in the sun, swaying palm trees, and carefree people sipping cocktails with delicately coloured umbrellas. Geographically defined, the Caribbean encompasses all that is touched by the ebb and flow of the Caribbean Sea. Not only does the Caribbean include the archipelago of islands between Florida to the north and Venezuela to the south, but also the surrounding Central and South American coastal areas of the mainland, constituting the Caribbean Basin.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since Christopher Columbus rediscovered the Americas in the late fifteenth century, the Caribbean Basin has been an arena where European nations have competed for control and conquest. The linguistic diversity of the region bears witness to this. English, Spanish, French, and Dutch—languages of conquering European nations—are official languages which exist alongside other creole language varieties. At various points in history, creole English speakers from various islands made the crossing—forcibly or willingly—to Spanish-speaking countries in the region. Belize, for instance, is unique as it is the only country in Central America where English is the official language. Belize’s history with creole English can be traced back to the seventeenth and eighteenth century, long before the territory was even under British rule; British settlers seeking to exploit Belize’s logwood resources brought laborers from Jamaica and Bermuda with them who were primarily creole English speakers.  Other waves of migration to the mainland occurred after the collapse of slavery and the plantation system in the nineteenth century. Successive generations of West Indians sought opportunities on Central American soil.  Many went to Panama and contributed to building the Panama Railroad and Panama Canal, while others found work in Costa Rica at the United Fruit Company in railway construction and on banana plantations during the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In 1983, creolist John Holm brought together linguistic scholarship on various creole English enclaves in an edited volume, entitled </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Central American English.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The book’s coverage included </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, as well as offshore islands of Providencia, San Andrés, and the Caymans. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pioneering in its time, this work was seminal as it documented</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> extensive fieldwork and provided the reader with a synchronic snapshot of each creole variety, in addition to cross-creole comparative analysis. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Holm went on to author the two volume </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pidgin and Creoles</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> titles, which are commonly regarded in the field as fundamental reference works for those in creole linguistics. In the second volume</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2 Reference Survey</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Holm (1988, 1989) afforded coverage to these Central American English-based creole varieties, providing a historical sketch and description of each variety. In recent scholarship, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Michaelis, Maurer, Haspelmath, & Huber, 2013)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> a highly ambitious and the most comprehensive work to date on creoles around the world, lends a contemporary look at a small subset of Central American English-based creoles, namely those spoken in Belize, Colombia, and Nicaragua. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact between English-based creoles and Spanish is by no means restricted to Central America. In John Lipski’s chapter contribution “Spanish and Portuguese in Contact” (2013), which appears in Raymond Hickey’s edited volume </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Handbook of Language Contact</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (2013), Lipski lays out “salient, contemporary contact zones” and identifies additional territories within the Caribbean Basin where Spanish is in contact with English-based creoles, such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, which remain largely underrepresented in linguistic scholarship.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The interplay of languages within these zones of contact also include English, which presents an additional layer of intricacy. A creole language continuum situation complexifies the speaker’s milieu in that there is the English-based creole on the one hand, referring to basilectal and/or mesolectal varieties, juxtaposed with its standard/acrolectal and non-standard English forms.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Book description</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this special issue of Brill’s Caribbean Series, we propose the edited volume </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When Creole and Spanish Collide: Language and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, which focuses on those enclaves in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean where English/Creole speaking West Indians settled and their language and culture still survives. This volume is ambitious in its scope as we seek contributions on Spanish and Creole/English contact zones within the Caribbean Basin, encompassing ten territories outlined below. We also invite proposals that address diasporic flows and cyber communities that inhabit digital spaces.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The overarching goal of this interdisciplinary volume is provide a space for comparative, contemporary scholarship as it pertains to the territories/communities where English/Creole is spoken in primarily Spanish-speaking societies, thus deepening our understanding of cultural and linguistic pluralism. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The thematic scope of the volume covers three broad areas of language, education, and anthropology, as described in detail below.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Geographical Scope</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Territories and language varieties are restricted to:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:7pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Belize</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—Belizean Creole English</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Colombia</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—particularly the off-shore islands Providencia and San Andr</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">é</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">s where Islander Creole English is spoken (a.k.a. Bende or San Andres Creole)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Costa Rica</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—particularly the region the Lim</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ó</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">n where Limonese Creole English is spoken (a.k.a. South Western Caribbean Creole English, Mekatelyu)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cuba</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—where there is potential contact with Jamaican Creole English and where Baragua may still survive</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dominican Republic</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—where there is contact with Jamaican Creole English and where Samana English is spoken</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honduras</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—specifically Bay Island  English and enclaves on the North Coast where creole is spoken</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicaragua</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—Miskito Coast Creole English (a.k.a. Nicaraguan Creole English, Rama Cay Creole English, or Bluefields Creole English)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Panama</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—areas such as Boca de Toros where Panamanian Creole English is spoken (a.k.a. Guari Guari or Patois)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Puerto Rico</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—where there is contact with West Indian Creole English</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Venezuela</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">—where there is contact with West Indian Creole English (e.g., El Callao)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anywhere</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> that linguistic and cultural practices are evident in diasporic or digital communities (e.g., North American contexts, in bordering countries, social media, online forums, etc.)</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thematic scope</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking for proposals that explore Creole/English and its speakers from the territories named above in relation to language, educational, and cultural practices and realities. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">language contact phenomena</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (language maintenance, shift, attrition, and death) primarily between Creole/English and Spanish (and/or English and indigenous languages);</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">creole language </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(structure, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, orthography, diachronic and synchronic variation); </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">multilingual practices </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(social and structural code switching, code mixing, code meshing, and language acquisition); </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">language socialization </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(culturally embedded child-caregiver dynamics, learning community language practices through socialization); </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">creole as an identity marker </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(acts of identity, crossing, style, and stance);</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">literary contributions and analysis of writers of West Indian heritage.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Education</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">critical and participatory literacy </span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(voicing, advocacy, praxis, accent, identity, teachers as learners); </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">critical pedagogy</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (mass media, discourse, de/coloniality, teachers as researchers); </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">critical research methods and participatory action research</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (e.g., portraiture, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">testimonio</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, critical case studies, critical ethnography).</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Anthropology</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">cultural identity</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (including Afro-Caribbean, American-Caribbean, Spanish-Caribbean, and West Indian Caribbean identities);</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">cultural hybridity</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> reflected in performance art (music, dance, theater), visual art (drawings, paintings, sculptures, photography, installations), and costumes/fashion; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">cultural practices</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (e.g., religion, celebration of holidays, carnival, and other festivals);</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">family dynamics</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (family structures, marriage, roles of men, women, and children);</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">cultural context</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (the effect of culture and history on behavior and ways of living).</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposal Submission</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interested authors are invited to submit proposals online by August 31, 2017. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposals should be submitted at </span><a href="https://creolescollide.wixsites.com/proposals" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://creolescollide.wixsite<wbr>.com/proposals</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Authors will receive acceptance notification by September 30, 2017. Please direct questions regarding submissions to </span><a href="mailto:creoles.collide@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">creoles.collide@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposals should contain the following information:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposed chapter title </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author name(s) and affiliation(s) </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1000 word (maximum) chapter proposal</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">50-100 word biography for each author </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Clear identification of the territory addressed </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chapter Submission</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contributions between 5000-7500 words (including bibliography and notes) are welcome. DUE on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 28, 2018 (if accepted).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DEADLINE for proposal submission: August 31, 2017</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2017</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">First draft of chapters: February 28, 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Final draft of chapters: May 30, 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 13.5pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Projected publication: 2019</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prospective Readership</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The target audience for this volume includes linguists, educators, cultural studies scholars, literary scholars, anthropologists, language policy makers, communication scholars, and students in higher education.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span></div>
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