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Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(1):1-5; doi:10.1093/cww/vpp014
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Introduction: Unsettling Women

Emma Parker

University of Leicester, UK ep27@le.ac.uk

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The essays gathered together here, in the first Special Issue of Contemporary Women's Writing, emerge from the second biennial conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network (CWWN), "Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women's Writing and Diaspora," held at the University of Leicester, UK, 11–13 July, 2008.1 The event, which was attended by delegates from more than fifteen countries, included papers on over seventy writers plus plenary lectures by Carole Boyce Davies, Sneja Gunew, Deborah Madsen, and Susheila Nasta, and featured discussions with the multi-award-winning writers Jackie Kay and Linda Grant, as well as readings by Jacqueline Roy and the performance poet Shamshad Khan. By celebrating the international range of contemporary women's writing, exploring issues of critical, theoretical and pedagogical concern relating to writing by women published since 1970, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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