Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 01:49:12 -0400

From: "Kendra Y. Hamilton" kh4d[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU

Subject: pot likker (fwd)







** FOR ** IMMEDIATE ** RELEASE **







Callaloo



a journal of African American

and African Arts and Letters



presents





"POT LIKKER"



a special issue on food

and the African Diaspora





The editors are soliciting poems, short stories, personal

essays, scholarly articles, and even recipes dealing with any

aspect of the culture of food. Topics could include regional

foodways (including North America, the Caribbean, and Central

and South America); ethnic interchanges among African, Native,

Latino and Asian Americans; medicinal arts and poultices; African

American cooks and their gardens; Aunt Jemima; historical

pieces on black chefs; cassavas in cross-cultural perspective;

consuming the Other; televisual and filmic representations;

plantations and the law of supply and demand; and many, many

others.



The deadline for submissions is Jan. 15, 1998. Snail mail

submissions to Kendra Hamilton, Contributing Editor, Callaloo,

322 Bryan Hall, Department of English, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville, VA 22903. You may email queries--though not

manuscripts--to kh4d[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]virginia.edu. The editors _strongly_

suggest that you familiarize yourself with the journal before

submitting. Please include an SASE for return of your

manuscript.