The following are my revised suggestions. But, please,
feel free to offer yours, since this is a collaborative project.
After a careful reexamination of Brother Eljay's work, I
have modified my initial suggestions. The text, Toward Defining
the African Aesthetic, has been dropped because it is co-edited
(Johnson, Cailler, Hamilton, & Hill-Lubin) and entails
selected papers from the 6th annual meeting of the ALA held
in 1980). Also, Eljay's two big books have been subdivided,
following his approach, to make the tasks manageable.
The following are my revised suggestions. But, please, feel
free to offer yours, since this is a collaborative project.
OBJECTIVE: To keep the memory of Eljay alive
by making his major works accessible and widely read
SUGGESTED WORKING TITLE : The Essential
Eljay Reader
WRITING FORMAT : MLA format
CHAPTER LENGTH : Between 20 and 25 double-spaced,
typed, letter-sized/A4 pages; default margins--one inch top,
bottom, right, and left
SOFTWARE: MS-Word, WordPerfect, or Rich
Text
HARDWARE: IBM or compatible--send as an
E-mail attachment when text is revised
TARGET AUDIENCE : Undergraduates and upper-level
high school students in Sierra Leone and overseas; graduate
students and academicians can also find it useful
APPROACH FOR CHAPTERS DEALING WITH ELJAY'S WORKS
:
(1) Introduce the work
(2) Discuss Eljay's approach (methodological/theoretical,
etc.)
(3) Offer analysis, using excerpts from the work
(4) State essence of the work and draw conclusions
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FINAL, REVISED MANUSCRIPTS: April
30, 2003
[It is critical that we meet this deadline, so that the book
can be in print by the following Eljay anniversary]
CO-EDITORS:
(1) Dr. Elizabeth Sawyerr
(2) Abdul Karim Bangura
SUGGESTED BOOK CONTENTS :
Dedication [CONTRIBUTORS: Co-editors]
Acknowledgment [CONTRIBUTORS: Co-editors]
Preface [CONTRIBUTORS: Co-editors]
Foreword [CONTRIBUTOR: Mualimu/Teacher Ali Mazrui]
Chapter 1: Biography of Lemuel "Eljay" Johnson: The Man and
His Works
Chapter 2: The Devil, the Gargoyle, and the Buffoon: The Negro
as Metaphor in Western Literature--Part I: Introduction to
a Process of Syncretism
Chapter 3: The Devil, the Gargoyle, and the Buffoon: The Negro
as Metaphor in Western Literature--Part II: The Response to
Blackness in Human Form
Chapter 4: The Devil, the Gargoyle, and the Buffoon: The Negro
as Metaphor in Western Literature--Part III: Allegiances and
Identities
Chapter 5. Carnival of the Old Coast
Chapter 6: Hand on the Navel
Chapter 7: Shakespeare in Africa (and Other Venues): Import
and the Appropriation of Culture--Whatever Happened to Caliban's
Mother? Or, The Problem With Othello's
Chapter 8: Shakespeare in Africa (and Other Venues): Import
and the Appropriation of Culture--"The Still-vex'd Bermoothes":
The Lands of America and The Topography of Utopia Chapter
9: Shakespeare in Africa (and Other venues): Import and the
Appropriation of Culture--How to Breath Dead Hippo meat, and
Live
Chapter 10: Summary and Conclusions [CONTRIBUTORS--Co-editors]
Appendix: Tributes and Poems to Eljay
Bibliography
Index
I am looking forward to receiving your selections and suggestions.
In Peace Always,
Karim/.
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