Call for Papers on Film and Television Research Topics Related
to People of African Descent Anywhere in the World
 
Contours, a new, multidisciplinary journal exploring the
experiences of people of African descent all over the world,
invites submissions for its premier issues.  Contours will
publish refereed scholarly articles, fiction, poetry, and
societal and cultural commentaries.  The journal
will publish scholarly articles from disciplines as diverse as
sociology, political science, history, anthropology, and
psychology; art, film, music, literary, and cultural criticism;
and medicine and the health sciences.
 
Suggested deadline for submissions is August 1, 1998; later
submissions will be considered for Volume Two.  Preferred
language for submissions is English; however, we will accept
manuscripts in any language.  If a manuscript in a language
other than English is accepted, a translation will be
published.  Contours will be published three times a year by
Indiana University Press and is supported by the African and
African-American Studies program and the history department at
Duke University.
 
To request a style sheet, inquire further, or to submit
manuscripts (four copies), contact:
 
Contours, Duke University, Box 90719, 121-M Carr Building,
Durham, NC  27708, USA
(919) 660-3197
fax:  (919) 660-3198
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Book Reviews
 
If you would like your recently published or forthcoming book
to be considered for review in Contours, please have your
publisher submit a review copy to:
 
Professor Sheila Smith McKoy
Book Review Editor, Contours
English Department
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN  37235  USA
 
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Lynda Horn, Assistant Editor, Contours
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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite