[Commlist] CFP - Grace Jones: Post-Colonial. Cosmopolitan. Icon.

*Grace Jones: Post-Colonial. Cosmopolitan. Icon.*

*An Anthology*

Call for Papers

Iconic Grace Jones - supermodel, songwriter, singer, record producer, 
actress and author - theatrically embodies intersectional identity 
politics.  Long before Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the word 
intersectionality in 1989, Jones was performing a disruptive 
post-colonial politics that still engenders controversy around 
gender, sonicity  sexuality, race and class. Coming of age in the early 
years of Jamaican Independence, Jones contested the limiting definitions 
of working-class black female identity in an essentially neo-colonial 
society.  Raised in a Fundamentalist Christian home, Jones also broke 
the repressive religious bonds that constrained her. Assuming the 
persona of androgynous sex symbol, Jones epitomises liberation from 
multiple oppressions.  This anthology aims to explore Grace Jones’s 
stellar, multimodal performance of identity in fashion, music and film, 
with particular focus on the transgressive and the post-colonial.

Grace Jones’s avant-garde work has been wide-ranging and distinctive, 
and we welcome a variety of approaches.

Topics for papers can include, but are not limited to the following:

• Grace Jones as Jamaican/Caribbean figure

• Grace Jones’s music (any specific album or track or collaboration)

• Grace Jones’ Performance Aesthetic

• Grace Jones as Exemplary of International, Cosmopolitan Influence

• Blackness, Grace Jones and the Place of Africa

• Gender Politics and Grace Jones

• Grace Jones as Post-colonial Icon

• Grace Jones’ style/fashion

• Grace Jones’ and Queering Identity

• Film and the Image of Grace Jones

• The Globalisation of Grace Jones

• Grace Jones, Transgression, and Identity Politics

• The Enduring Influence of Grace Jones in Music, Fashion, Film, 
Photography, Performance and/or Art

This anthology is slated for publication in the Sound Culture Series at 
The Press, UWI.  Contributions must be between 3000 and 6000 words and 
formatted in accordance with UWI Press style, found here: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NW6ashBtzIRYSp7FmV4ANwEspG_tGTyW8jabe_5QnbQ/edi 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NW6ashBtzIRYSp7FmV4ANwEspG_tGTyW8jabe_5QnbQ/edit>

*/Please ensure that the formatting guidelines are carefully applied. /*

*The submission deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2020 and the 
deadline for full papers is January 31, 2021. *Email all submissions to 
Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah at (culture /at/ kosmopole.page) 
<mailto:(culture /at/ kosmopole.page)>

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