Call For Papers
Obsidian is currently seeking contributions for the special issue on Pearl Cleage.
Obsidian III supports the work of writers who are telling the stories and writing the poems of the African Diaspora. As the journal has evolved, it has also been committed to publishing excellent scholarly articles. The journal seeks scholarly articles for an issue dedicated to the work of Pearl Cleage.
As a writer in several genres -- journalism, poetry, drama, essay, short fiction and novels, Cleage continues to interrogate the politics of gender, race and herstory in African American culture. Obsidian invites previously unpublished scholarly essays on any aspects of Cleage’s work. We are open to essays that engage any aspect of Cleage's oeuvre, but are particularly interested in:
Cleage's focus on free womanhood, feminism and womanism
poetic style and/or voice
gendering race and racing gender
use of African Diaspora spirituality
the politics of love and identity
violence and the black literary imagination
the import of place, especially of urban spaces
absented whiteness
Cleage's vision of black masculinity