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Contributions to
special
issues of journals and to books
(arranged in the chronological order of the deadlines for proposals)
Recently closed deadlines
European Journal of
English Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 3
The Rhetoric of National
Character
Guest Editors: Ton
Hoenselaars
and Joep Leerssen
Deadline for proposals:
31
December 2007 (closed)
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 Cultural,
literary and
popular
representations of collective peculiarities and behaviour frequently
invoke 'national character' as a motivating explanation. Stereotypical
in nature, such characters consist of attributions and prejudices
established intertextually in a long tropical tradition. The study of
such images of national character, established as a specialism in
Comparative Literature known as 'imagology', has in recent years been
attracting fresh interest (cf. www.hum.uva.nl/images). Imagology is
based on, but not limited to, the inventory and typology of how nations
are typified, represented, and/or caricatured in a given tradition or
corpus of cultural articulations. On the basis of the analysis of texts
or cultural artefacts, it raises questions of the mechanism of
national/ethnic 'othering' and its underlying self-images. Among the
questions raised are those concerning the relation between 'character'
and 'identity'; historical variability; genre, irony, and even
canonicity; and intermediality.
EJES invites submissions on the rhetoric of national character from
specialists across the disciplines of English Studies. How has the
notion of the character of a given nation been deployed, in the
representation of language or speech, in narrative, caricature, film,
television or history-writing? What 'foreigners' have been a foil to
English, or British representations of national difference, and how has
Englishness or Britishness been perceived and represented elsewhere?
While these questions may generate a great number of fascinating case
studies, the editor would specifically welcome contributions addressing
theoretical implications and future perspectives of the idea of a
'rhetoric of national character'.
Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5,000 words, as
well as any inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent by e-mail to
the guest editors: Ton Hoenselaars <Ton.Hoenselaars@let.uu.nl>
and Joep Leerssen <Leerssen@Uva.Nl>. The deadline for proposals
is 31 December 2007, with delivery of completed essays by 30 November
2008. The issue will appear in Winter 2009.
(posted 29 Oct '06)
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The Short Stories of John McGahern
Journal
of
the Short Story in English
Deadline
for submission : 31 December 2007 (closed)
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The Journal of the Short
Story in English
intends to publish a special issue of the Journal on the short stories
of John McGahern and therefore invites new and original contributions
on all aspects of his short fiction as it is available in The Collected
Short Stories. Preference will be given to individual close textual
analysis of any of the 34 stories in the collection but other
approaches are also welcome: thematic or textual comparisons between
stories, their relation with the author’s novels, stylistic or generic
considerations etc. All theoretical and methodological options will be
considered but, for the sake of balance, the volume cannot include too
many papers on the same short story, so should the situation arise you
may be asked to choose a different text, that is why we recommend that
proposals should be sent as early as possible to avoid any difficulty.
The editors would prefer papers to be written in English but will take
into consideration any relevant proposal in French.
Submissions should not
exceed 7000
words and should conform to the standard MLA Style Manual (1985). They
are to be sent electronically to the guest editor, Claude Maisonnat, at
the following address: <maisonnat@chello.fr> and also to the
co-editors in France: Linda Collinge and Emmanuel Vernadakis at
<Linda.collinge@univ-angers.fr> and
<emmanuel.vernadakis@univ-angers.fr> or to the American
co-editors at <todalec@mail.belmont.edu> and
<PAINESTOVER@aol.com>
If a paper manuscript is submitted it should be sent to Claude
Maisonnat, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Département
du Monde Anglophone, 74 rue Pasteur, 69007, Lyon, France. All e-mail
submissions are expected to include the title of the paper, a 150 word
abstract, a short contributor’s note with name, mail address, postal
address and institutional affiliation.
(posted 21 Nov '06)
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European
Journal of
English Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 1
Travelling Concepts
Guest Editors: Birgit
Neumann
& Frederik Tygstrup
New extended deadline
for proposals: 31 December 2007 (closed)
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 Concepts
are the tools of
academic discourse: They enable discussion and exchange on the basis of
a common language. However, more often than not, the meaning and
operational value of these concepts differ between diverse disciplines,
national cultures and historical periods. Concepts such as
'performance', 'image', 'narration', 'identity', 'hybridity', or
'transnationality', which are at the core of the study of culture and
language, are not univocal or firmly established terms. Rather, they
are dynamic and changeable as they travel back and forth between
academic contexts. Hence, they constitute what Mieke Bal (2002) has
felicitously called 'travelling concepts'. With the move towards
greater interdisciplinarity, the exchange of concepts between different
disciplines has considerably intensified. Through constant
appropriation, translation and reassessment across various fields these
concepts have acquired new meanings, triggering a reorganisation of
prevalent orders of knowledge. To the extent that their meaning must,
therefore, be constantly renegotiated between different disciplines,
travelling concepts can foster a self-reflexive approach to the
interdisciplinary study of culture. This volume aims to review and
critically examine the highly dynamic exchange of concepts,
specifically providing the following:
•
an
overview of the journeys of key concepts and
their effects on English Studies;
• a discussion of the conditions that facilitate the
'import' and 'export' of concepts;
• an analysis of the role that cultural changes play
in the travelling of concepts;
• a discussion of literary and visual representations
of travelling concepts;
• historical case studies illustrating the
transformation concepts undergo as they migrate between different
disciplines, national cultures and historical periods;
• an examination of the methodological consequences
that the travelling of concepts has for interdisciplinary studies of
culture.
Detailed proposals
(500-1,000
words) for articles of c. 5,000 words, as well as any inquiries
regarding this issue, should be sent by e-mail to both guest editors:
Birgit Neumann <Birgit.Neumann@anglistik.uni-giessen.de> and
Frederik Tygstrup <frederik@hum.ku.dk>. The new extended deadline
for
proposals is 31 December 2007, with delivery of completed essays by 31
March 2008. The issue will appear in Spring 2009.
(posted 29 Oct '06, updated
4 Oct '07)
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European
Journal of
English Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 2
Intercultural Negotiations
Guest Editors: Ian
MacKenzie,
James R. Chamberlain & Ildiko Polyak
New extended deadline
for proposals: 31 December 2007 (closed)
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 The
study of English in Europe (and beyond) necessarily involves encounters
between cultures. Teachers and students of English literature,
language, linguistics and cultural studies, no less than the authors
they read, are situated in concrete cultural and temporal contexts.
International business is increasingly aware of the importance of
intercultural communication and negotiation, but the questions raised
by the topic are not only pragmatic; they traverse all levels of the
study of English language, literatures and cultures. EJES invites
submissions of papers from specialists in all these fields on
intercultural negotiations in the widest sense. This might include
areas such as intercultural communication theory and training; the
teaching and reception of foreign literatures; diachronic reading as
intercultural communication; cross-cultural pragmatics; European
language and education policies and priorities; language, culture and
identity; and multiculturalism and ‘intracultural’ communication.
Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5,000 words, as
well as any inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent by e-mail to
all three guest editors: James R. Chamberlain
<james.chamberlain@fh-brs.de>, Ian MacKenzie
<ian.mackenzie@eti.unige.ch>, and Ildiko Polyak
<ipolyak@ibs-b.hu>. The new extended deadline for proposals is 31
December 2007, with delivery of completed essays by 31 July 2008. The
issue will appear in Summer 2009.
(posted 29 Oct '06, updated
4 Oct '07))
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CDE Award for outstanding
research in the field of contemporary theatre and drama in English
Deadline for submissions:
31 December 2007 (closed)
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The German Society for Contemporary Drama and Theatre in
English (CDE) is offering a prize (up to euros 1,250) for the best new
monograph study in the field of contemporary drama and theatre in
English. Only recent work (Dr/PhD theses or Habilitationsschriften
completed in 2006 and 2007) will be considered. The book will be
published in the Society's special series of CDE Studies.
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2007.
For further information please contact the CDE President, Prof. Dr.
Werner Huber <wern.huber@univie.ac.at>
or the series editor, Prof. Dr. Martin Middeke:
<martin.middeke@phil.uni-augsburg.de>.
http://www.ContemporaryDrama.de
(posted 27 Oct '07)
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The Writing
of
David
Garnett
Deadline
for proposals: 1 January 2008 (closed)
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Essays
are sought for three separate collections of essays on the
writing of T.H. White, Henry Green, and David Garnett. They are to be
published as fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes of a series of studies of
underrated British and Irish novelists, edited by Gill Davies, David
Malcolm and John Simons. A volume on Ronald Firbank’s fiction was
published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2004 (ISBN: 0-7734-6555-3); one
on Sylvia Townsend Warner’s writing was published by Mellen in
2006 (ISBN: 07734-5873-5); one on the work of Rebecca West is due for
publication by Mellen in 2007. Mellen has agreed to publish another
three volumes in the series.
Essays should be approximately 5000
words
long and may be on any aspect
of White’s, Green’s, or Garnett’s writing.
For David Garnett, the schedule for
submission of abstracts and essays
is as follows: Send abstracts of proposed essays (500 words) with
a brief professional cv by e-mail to Professor John Simons, Faculty of
Media and Humanities, University of Lincoln, UK (jsimons@lincoln.ac.uk)
by 1 January 2008. Deadline for completed essays is 1 November 2008.
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Shakespeare's Language
Deadline for proposals: 10
January 2008 (closed)
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Call for contributions to
a collection of essays on Shakespeare's Language
Shakespeare had a lifelong interest in the various problematics
inherent to language per se and his own innovative uses of language
still baffle us, modern-day readers of his texts. Following our seminar
in London in 2006 at the international conference of The European
Society for the Study of English, we are currently looking for
contributions in English to a collection of essays on Shakespeare's
Language, to be published in 2008.
Papers are welcome on various techniques of textual investigation
developed in such fields as stylistic close reading, corpus
linguistics, cognitive, authorship studies, lexicography, stylometry,
etc.
Papers will be refereed by an international committee.
Please send 500-word proposals with some bibliographical references and
a brief c.v. to: <mireilleravassat@yahoo.fr>.
Deadline for abstracts : 10 January 2008
If you plan to submit a
manuscript, please let us know as soon as possible. We will only take
into consideration papers which have not been published yet.
Deadline for submitting papers: 30 March 2008.
(posted 26 Nov '07)
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Multicultural
Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance, Vol. 5 (19)
Deadline for proposals: 31
January 2008 (closed)
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Multicultural
Shakespeare: Translation,
Appropriation and Performance is an international journal
devoted to Shakespearean studies. It is a forum in which researchers,
especially those from non-English-speaking backgrounds, can air local
concerns and themes that contribute to the creation and understanding
of Shakespeare as global phenomenon. First printed in Japan in 1972,
now published in Lodz, Poland, Multicultural Shakespeare seeks
co-operation with people who would like to share their experiences of
local appropriations of Shakespeare. We welcome contributions in
various areas of Shakespearean studies, page and stage renditions of
his plays, translations, critical analyses, book and theatre reviews.
Currently, we invite
submissions for volume 5 (19). For more information, please visit our
website: http://www.wsmip.uni.lodz.pl/ZBB/ZBBiKWB_pliki/multicultural.htm
The deadline for proposals is 31 January 2008. Enquiries about
contributions and the journal should be addressed to Katarzyna Kwapisz
Williams <katarzyna.kwapisz@wp.pl>
The British and Commonwealth Studies Department
University of Lodz
ul. Narutowicza 54/11
91-136 Lodz
Poland
(posted 8 Jun '07)
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Film Studies Now: BELLS
(Barcelona
English Language and Literature
Studies), number 17
Deadline for proposals: 31
January 2008 (closed)
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 BELLS
(Barcelona English Language and
Literature
Studies) invites submissions for the forthcoming Literature and
Culture issue (number 17), due to appear in the autumn of 2008, on the
following topic: Film Studies Now. BELLS
is published on-line once a year by the English Section of the
Department of English and German at the University of Barcelona. It
caters for an academic audience and welcomes scholarly articles on all
areas of English studies, as well as reviews and interviews. Each issue
is a monograph devoted to specific topics within the Literature and
Culture and the Language and Linguistics areas respectively.
Submissions following the guidelines of the Bells Style Sheet ( http://www.ub.es/bells/style.html)
should be sent to the editor by 31 January 2008 at the following
address: Enric Monforte, BELLS, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de
Filologia, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Gran Via, 585,
08007-Barcelona.
More information on the journal can be found at http://www.ub.es/filoan/bells.html.
Questions can also be addressed to the editor at: Enric.Monforte@ub.edu
(posted 11 Oct '07)
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Philologia
- professional-scientific journal for language, literature and culture
Deadline for proposals:
1 February 2008 (closed)
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 Our peer-reviewed journal
invites contributions for the following sections: Language Science,
Language Teaching Methodology, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies,
Translation Studies, Book Reviews and conference/seminar Reports.
Contributions in different languages of Europe are accepted.
Papers should be submitted by email to
<casopis@philologia.org.yu>.
Enquiries direct to the Editor, Dr. Biljana Cubrovic, at
<casopis@philologia.org.yu>.
(posted 15 Oct '07)
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Lexis - Issue n°3 : "Borrowing"
Deadline for
submissions:
1 February 2008 (closed)
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 The e-journal Lexis
is planning to publish its third issue, devoted to Linguistic Borrowing
in English, in October 2009. We are inviting papers dealing with the
richness and diversity of loan words in English in general, as well as
papers dealing with such questions as the loan word contribution of
specific languages to English, the historical dimension, the motivation
and remotivation of loan words, the various processes of assimilation
and adaptation, the processes of transfer and shift etc, this list
being far from exhaustive. Manuscripts may be written in French or in
English, and should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 10 lines in
French and in English, as well as a list of the relevant key words.
They should be sent to the Editor of Lexis, Denis Jamet as email
attachments (Word and pdf), and will be refereed by two members of the
international evaluation committee. Manuscripts may be rejected,
accepted subject to revision, or accepted as such. There is no limit to
the number of pages.
Deadline for sending in abstracts : 1st February 2008.
Deadline for sending in papers accepted : March 2009.
If you plan to submit a
manuscript, whether individually or collectively, please advise
Aurélia Paulin or Jennifer Vince, who are in charge of this
issue of Lexis, as soon as
possible.
Abstracts and articles will be sent via email to
<lexis@univ-lyon3.fr>.
Website: http://screcherche.univ-lyon3.fr/lexis
. October 2007 : call for papers
. February 2008 : deadline for sending in abstracts to Lexis
. March 2008 : Evaluation committee's decisions notified to authors
. September 2008 : deadline for sending in papers
. October to December 2008 : proofreading of papers by the Evaluation
committee
. January to March 2009 : authors' corrections
. March 2009 : deadline for sending in final versions of papers.
(posted 15 Oct '07)
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Volume 7 of Quaderni del '900: Italy in English-Language Literature from
1900 to the Present Day
Deadline for proposals: 5
February 2008
(closed)
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 Volume 7 of Quaderni
del '900 (Editor: Tiziana Morosetti) proposes to offer a
reflection on how Italian literature and culture is a presence in and
influence on modern and contemporary English-language literatures,
including the literatures of Great Britain, the United States and
postcolonial Anglophone countries. In particular, the volume will aim
to examine not only literary relationships between Italian literature
and twentieth- and twenty-first-century works in English but also the
other contacts that from 1900 onwards have existed between Italy (its
culture, geography, authors and intellectuals) and writers and critics
working in English.
The volume intends to
tackle the presence not only of contemporary and real Italy in
literatures in English but also of imaginary, stereotypical and
historical Italies. Possible themes may include, but are not
limited to, the following:
1) Italy in
English-language literature: travel-writing by English-language
writers; Italy and its cultural manifestations (architectural,
culinary, musical, artistic) in English-language writing; the Italian
stereotype in contemporary English-language writing (including
comparisons with earlier works); Italian academia and English-language
writers.
2) Italian
literature and English-language writing: the influence of literary
works, authors or literary trends on English-language literature;
theoretical prospectives; the influence of modern and contemporary
Italian thought on British, American and postcolonial critical theory;
Italian settings and characters in English-language literature.
The volume does not set
out to be a study of migrant literature, a subject to which Quaderni
del '900 has already
dedicated an issue. Articles on Italian-American or Italian-Canadian
authors will not be taken into consideration. Furthermore, given the
degree to which there are pre-existing studies, contributions focusing
on Dante's influence on the works of Pound or Eliot or on the influence
of Gramsci's thought on postcolonial literature will not be taken into
consideration.
Articles no longer than
65 000 characters, including spaces, must be accompanied by a maximum
300-word abstract and by a one-page biography including principal
publications and be sent to <morosetti_tiziana@hotmail.com>.
Contributions must be received by the 5th of February 2008, and will be
subject to referees’ approval.
Quaderni del ’900, which
was
founded in 2001, is a journal ‘born between two worlds’: America and
Italy. It is an annual bilingual journal, and gives priority to younger
scholars. Its focus is modern and contemporary Italian literature
and culture, and it has an interdisciplinary approach (from literature
to sociology, gender studies and postcolonial studies). It is
characterized by a decided comparative flavour, and welcomes
contributions examing comparisons between Italian literature, other
disciplines and literature in other languages. The journal is supported
by the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies at California
State University, Long Beach.
More information available on Quaderni del '900 at http://www.libraweb.net/sommari.php?chiave=90
(posted 11 Dec '07)
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Extremism in 21st Century
Britain
Deadline for proposals: 28
February 2008
(closed)
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Professor Roger Eatwell
(University of Bath) and Dr Matthew Goodwin (University of Manchester)
invite the submission of original and high-quality articles of
approximately 7,000 to 8,000 words for a co-edited manuscript for
Routledge (to be published early 2009).
The book will focus
specifically upon contemporary political and ethnic extremism and how
different forms of 'extremism' interact with one another. We are also
keen to incorporate chapters on the policy response to extremist groups
and the community cohesion agenda more generally.
In particular, we welcome contributions that deal with the following:
* Religious extremism in
Britain (i.e. movements, participants, etc)
* Extreme right movements
and parties in post-1945 Britain
* Support for anti-immigrant and extremist groups/parties in Britain
* The role of leadership in extremist groups
* The policy response (at local and national level) to extremism
* Role of civil society/other stakeholders in responding to extremism
* Ethnic minority leadership
Those interested are
encouraged to send a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article to
<matthew.goodwin@manchester.ac.uk>, by February 28th 2008.
Authors will be notified
whether they should submit their article in full by March 10th . For
further information please contact Matthew Goodwin at the e-mail
address provided.
(posted 18 Feb '08)
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IRIC:
The Internationalist Review of Irish Culture
Deadline for proposals: 29
February 2008
(closed)
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 The
Internationalist Review of Irish Culture is a peer-reviewed
journal which deals with Irish Studies from a variety of perspectives
and disciplines (Literature, Literature in Translation, Cultural
Studies, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Film Studies, History,
Politics and Social Studies). Its aim is to provide a forum for
scholars and students intended to bring together diverse experiences,
to stimulate discussions and to elaborate proposals regarding the state
of Irish arts and culture. All papers in the IRIC undergo editorial
screening
and peer-reviewing by readers chosen in the fields of expertise and
domains relevant to the articles. The identity of the authors are not
disclosed to the reviewers or vice versa. The IRIC is an open and yet
rigorous
instrument of research and critical/theoretical debate, as well as an
effective medium for the transmission and circulation of knowledge.
Please, refer to the statement of ambitions in our website http://www.iric-ireland.com
for the mission of the IRIC.
The Internationalist
Review of Irish
Culture is currently soliciting papers for its second issue on
"Transnational Ireland". Articles should be in the 4,000 - 7,000 word
range and accompanied by a 100 - 150 word abstract, a short bio, and a
maximum of 10 key words.
The editorial board is especially interested in work that addresses the
following topics:
-- Ireland and Irishness in the international(ist) context
--the place(s) of Irish culture within broader matrices of
transnational commerce, politics, and art
--literary works addressing the question of internationalism in both
political and cultural terms
--theoretical approaches to ideology in the Irish context
--Internationalism in Ireland
--Marxist, cultural materialist, and broadly historicist critiques of
Irish cultural artifacts/aesthetic production
--the origins, development, and ramifications of the "Celtic Tiger"
The IRIC warmly welcomes
contributions from young scholars.
The IRIC aims to furnish
scholars with
a forum in which they may develop and communicate analyses of the
historical development of global economic processes and their
implications for the socio-economic, political, and aesthetic concerns
that together constitute the past, present, and future of Irish culture.
Please send your abstract
(100-150 words in length) and your completed
essay (4,000-7,000 words, Chicago style) by 29 February 2008, as e-mail
attachments in Word Format to the editors:
<submission@iric-ireland.com>.
Queries or questions to: <info@iric-ireland.com>
(posted 8 Jan '08)
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The
post-Naipaul: From India to the Americas - A new Caribbean Literature
Deadline for proposals: 29
February 2008
(closed)
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V.S. Naipaul, the
Trinidadian born (1932) and British citizen is without doubt the most
read Caribbean writer from Indian origins. With the Nobel Prize he
received in 2001, he has left his mark on the Caribbean and British
literary traditions. The outstanding success of his writings and
chiefly his masterpiece A House for
Mister Biswas (1961) propelled him to the front stage and made
him the greatest writer of the Diasporic Caribbean. The body of his
work, marked by insightful criticism and pessimism, has set the
boundaries of exile writing with its portrayal of an Indian community
transported from their original space to alien territories, from their
native soil to the borders of the new world (the Americas). The
pervasive consequences of Colonization, the clash of cultures, the
tensions resulting from the gap between tradition and modernity are
themes that are prominent in Naipaul’s writings and which cast him as a
talented and critical observer of the Indian Diaspora.
For the last forty years Naipaul has occupied the front stage and has
overshadowed other Indian-Caribbean writers. Does it amount to saying
that Naipaul has written all that had to be said about and for these
Indians from the Diasporas? Are issues faced by nowadays Indians
scattered all over the Caribbean Islands, Canada and the United States
the same as those portrayed in the writings of Naipaul a few decades
ago?
New voices have emerged in the Indian-Caribbean Diaspora such as David
Dabydeen, Shani Mootoo, Ramabai Espinet, Rajkumari Singh, Mahadai Das,
all novelists and poets who are giving, through a singular position,
differing visions of their dual relationship with India and the
Caribbean.
The book project: The Post-Naipaul:
From India to the Americas - A new Caribbean Literature sets out
to explore contemporary Caribbean literature in the diversity of its
issues and themes. It aims at analyzing new writing strategies
showcased by writers from Indian origins living in the Caribbean,
Canada, the United States or Great Britain. It also examines the
differing positions of those writers along with the cultural,
aesthetical, and political issues they are faced with.
We welcome article proposals on one or several Indian-Caribbean authors
regardless of their national origins. The list of writers and themes in
this call for articles is not restrictive and should be read as a
suggestion only.
Summaries of article projects, with 2500 characters, should be sent to
Patricia Donatien-Yssa with an attached bio-bibliography of the author
by February 29, 2008.
Articles (15 to 25 pages long, Times New Roman, with 1.5 spacing and
footnotes) must be sent by May 30, 2008 to this address:
<Patricia.Donatien-Yssa@martinique.univ-ag.fr>.
(posted 26 Jan '08)
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April to December 2008
ManuScript: Senses
Deadline for proosals: 4
April 20087
(closed)
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ManuScript, the
Postgraduate
Journal of English and American Studies, in the School of Arts,
Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, invites papers from
postgraduates within English, American, Literary and Cultural studies
programmes to be published online. This online issue of ManuScript will
extend the debates from our conference, which took place on 7 December
2007, on the broad theme of "Senses."
Papers are encouraged
from a diversity of fields and trans-disciplinary viewpoints. Possible
topics may include but are not limited to:
* sensory immanence / sense
construction
* hierarchies of the senses
* (stuff and) nonsense
* gendered senses
* translations and adaptations (between senses)
* hermeneutics (making senses)
* synaesthesia / coenaesthesia
* sensory deprivation
* anaesthetic
* hidden senses or the extra-sensory
Submission deadline is
Friday, 4 April 2008 for papers no less than 4000 and no more than 8000
words, should be emailed to <manuscript@manchester.ac.uk>
(preferably as a Microsoft Word® attachment) The
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed.
Alternatively, you can submit your work by sending two hard copies via
post to:
Burcu Alkan
ManuScript Journal
English and American Studies
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
(posted
20 Feb '08)
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Literary
Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities
Studies
Deadline for propoals: 30
May 2008
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Literary Education and
Digital Learning:
Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies, a book edited
by Willie van Peer, University of Munich, Germany; Sonia Zyngier,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Vander Viana, Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
We live at a time of
enormous realignments in the use of media. Each day more information
can be retrieved from the Internet. The world is not one of knowing how
to access and manage information rather than storing and processing it.
In the area of literature, ever more information on literary production
is being disseminated and retrieved in electronic form. This has
considerable consequences for the form and use of such information. It
also has consequences for learning and research environments at
educational institutions. Today's popularization of modern technologies
has allowed scholars in the Humanities, including literature
specialists, to access an array of novel opportunities in the digital
medium, which have brought about an equal number of challenges and
questions. In spite of the vast amount of information now at hand, very
little has been provided for the advance of literary education.
Objective
This volume aims at
providing a deep probe into the most relevant issues in literary
education and digital learning. The chapters will be organized into two
categories: research and education. The first group will collect
studies investigating the impact of technologies in literary research.
Its main aim is to understand how computers and other new technologies
may help scholars investigate literary works in novel ways, thus
bringing new perspectives to the area. The second group will look into
the potential of applying distance learning
methods/concepts/environments to the field of literature. In other
words, it will collect contributions on how these resources may be used
by scholars and students either inside or outside regular classrooms,
provided that these classroom applications are not accounts of
experience but based on research. In sum, the volume will offer a
survey of how digital literary education has developed, where it stands
now, how research in this area has progressed, and what the prospects
are for the future.
Target audience
This volume will be of
interest to those interested in digital learning/teaching and/or
literature, especially in the university context. This book will
also interest literature professionals who would like to see how
digital learning works in practice. In addition, the book will be
highly valuable to those researchers in the field interested in keeping
abreast with current developments in the confluence of their fields of
expertise and technological settings.
Recommended topics
The topics to be covered
in Parts I (Research) and II (Education) should encompass literature
and one of the following aspects (the list below is not comprehensive,
other topics may be welcomed, and especially those in which authors are
considered specialists):
*Applications in Distance
Learning
*Authoring Tools
*Collaborative Learning
*Corpus-based Research
*Empirical Research on Digital Learning/Teaching
*Future Challenges
*Learning Technologies
*Methods in Distance Education Teaching
*Online Education Tools and Technologies
*Online Learning
*Shortcomings of Distance Learning Applications and Technologies
*Web-Based Course Authoring Tools
Submission
procedure
Researchers and
practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2008, a 2-4
page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of
his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be
notified by July 31, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by
October 31, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a
double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be published by
IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information
Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference) and "Medical
Information Science Reference" imprints. For additional information
regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
document) to:
* Vander Viana <vander.viana@terra.com.br>
and
* Sonia Zyngier <sonia.zyngier@gmail.com>
(posted 2 Apr '08)
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Revista para Profesores de Inglés,
vol. 15: Bilingual education
Deadline for submissions:
31 May 2008
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 GRETA Journal, Revista para Profesores de
Inglés (ISSN 1133-0909), is preparing the publication of its
15th and 16th volumes. GRETA Journal publishes manuscripts on English
Language Teaching Methodology. Its objective of the journal is to
bridge the gap between the field of Applied Linguistics and class
praxis. Other fundamental goals include providing up-dated information
about the latest trends, techniques, materials, and methodologies
employed in EFL teaching and to exchange experiences and publications
between research teams both on a national and international level.
In keeping with its
continuous concern for state-of-the-art issues, the Journal makes a
call for contributions related to two topics which are affecting and
transforming English language teaching at a regional, national, and
international level: Bilingual Education (Volume 15) and the European
Higher Education Area (Volume 16).
We welcome manuscripts related to these two topics for any of our
regular sections:
Theory Behind the Practice
Classroom Techniques
In the Primary Classroom
In the Secondary Classroom
At University
Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Internet site and CALL
Contributions can be in
English or Spanish and should adhere to the publication guidelines of
the Journal, available at http://www.gretajournal.com
The manuscripts received will be evaluated in a double blind peer
review process.
The deadline for submissions for the next two volumes is May 31st, 2008.
Manuscripts should be sent by e-mail to
<submissions@gretajournal.com>.
The editors:
Ana María Ortega
Cebreros <amortega@ujaen.es>
María Luisa Pérez Cañado <mlperez@ujaen.es>.
(posted 6 May '08)
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Revista para Profesores de Inglés,
vol. 16: The European Higher Education Area
Deadline for
submissions: 31 May 2008
|
 GRETA Journal, Revista para
Profesores de Inglés (ISSN 1133-0909), is preparing the
publication of
its 15th and 16th volumes. GRETA Journal publishes manuscripts on
English Language Teaching Methodology. Its objective of the journal is
to bridge the gap between the field of Applied Linguistics and class
praxis. Other fundamental goals include providing up-dated information
about the latest trends, techniques, materials, and methodologies
employed in EFL teaching and to exchange experiences and publications
between research teams both on a national and international level.
In keeping with its
continuous
concern for state-of-the-art issues, the Journal makes a call for
contributions related to two topics which are affecting and
transforming English language teaching at a regional, national, and
international level: Bilingual Education (Volume 15) and the European
Higher Education Area (Volume 16).
We welcome manuscripts related to these two topics for any of our
regular sections:
Theory Behind the Practice
Classroom Techniques
In the Primary Classroom
In the Secondary Classroom
At University
Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Internet site and CALL
Contributions can be in
English or Spanish and should adhere to the publication guidelines of
the Journal, available at http://www.gretajournal.com
The manuscripts received will be evaluated in a double blind peer
review process.
The deadline for submissions for the next two volumes is May 31st, 2008.
Manuscripts should be sent by e-mail to
<submissions@gretajournal.com>.
The editors:
Ana María Ortega
Cebreros <amortega@ujaen.es>
María Luisa Pérez Cañado <mlperez@ujaen.es>.
(posted 6 May '08)
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Le
Simplegadi n.6
Deadline for submissions:
30 June 2008
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Le Simplegadi n.6 - International
online refereed journal on modern languages and literature is open to
innovative contributions, as compared to dominant cultural hegemony,
which can promote 'ugualitarian' and collaborative principles and
practices towards individuals, societies, literatures and cultures from
a multiplicity of points of view ('hybridisation' of languages and
literatures, migrant writing, intercultural and transcultural
identities and subjectivities, post-colonial studies and subaltern
studies, etc). The main aim is to foster critical resistance towards
hegemonic and hierarchical models of culture, and positively promote,
as viable alternatives, discourse practices of partnership and
mutuality.
We welcome submissions
focusing on these areas of interest and conforming to any of the four
main sections in Le Simplegadi: articles, comments, book reviews and
creative pieces of writing.
Articles should have an abstract both in Italian and in English.
To facilitate the reviewing process, submit articles in RTF format to
<simplegadi@uniud.it>.
All submissions should be
accompanied by a cover message that includes a brief biographical
statement (max. 100 words), a full mailing address, a telephone number
and an email address.
The deadline for submissions is 30th June 2008
(posted 29 Apr '08)
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The Reception of Ideograms
in Early 20th Century European Poetry
Deadline for proposals: 10
July 2008
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 Issue n. 8 of RiLUnE.
"Like nature, the Chinese words are alive and plastic, because thing
and action are not formally separated."
(Fenollosa/Pound 1920)
"Le rêve : connaître une langue étrangère
(étrange) et cependant ne pas la comprendre... en un mot,
descendre dans l'intraduisible." (Barthes 1973)
Some possible lines of
analysis within the reception of the ideogram are:
- The effects of the "re-discovery" of the ideogram in poetic language.
The need for a concrete and primal relationship with things and the
rediscovery of the "fossil poetry" in language.
- The creative misunderstanding of the ideogrammatic basis of the
Chinese characters and its developments: whether and how the
Indo-European linguistic perspective may interfere with and
isolate/emphasize/distort particular features of the language, between
exoticism and cult of the foreigner as an aesthetic possibility.
- The influence of the ideogram on the spatiality of poetic writing:
directionality and dynamism ("internal" in the signs of the ideogram
and "external" in alphabetical languages); horizontal signs versus
vertical signs, a new form of energy within the language.
- The syntactic implications of an «ideogrammic method»
applied to poetry: a form of writing by juxtaposition and accumulation,
«free» from syntactical constraints and linked to the
"natural order of things", i.e. transitivity. Incidentally, the method
is paralleled in cinema by Sergei Eisenstein who, in a 1929 essay,
celebrated the ideogram as a principle of cinematographic montage.
- Visual poetics: from
Imagism to visual poetry, the search for a language of overtones
"vibrating against the eye" (Fenollosa). The ideogram as a means of
visual synthesis"between painting and writing, and its integration in
the poetic text, in dialogue with alphabetical writing. The search for
a form of artistic writing (i.e. calligrammatic) as an expression of
the «synthetic» ideal of avant-garde poetry.
- The ideogrammatic roots of visual poetry. From Mallarmé's
«Coup de dès» to Apollinaire's Calligrammes, from Italian futurism
(Marinetti and Govoni) to the Spanish Vanguardia (Vicente Huidobro):
the ideogram as a tool to dissolve the free verse into the plastic
forms of visual poetry. Note also the evolution of visual poetry from
representative to conceptual, from calligrammes to analogia disegnata
(Francesco Meriano exhorted to represent "the flight, not the
aeroplane" in 1916).
- The metaphorical quality of the ideogram, especially in compound
ideograms, where two things or ideas are combined and juxtaposed to
conjure up new meanings. Claudel speaks of a metaphorical logic for
ideogrammatic languages and Fenollosa remarked how such a language
"bears its metaphor on its face".
- The fascination for etymology as a prerogative of poetry and the
license of poetic etymologies possibly encouraged by the "tymorhetoric"
(Jin 2002) tradition of classical Chinese poetry (see, among others,
Claudel, Fenollosa and Michaux).
- The reception of the ideogram as a realization of Roland Barthes's
dream of "knowing a language without understanding it: the descent to
the "untranslatable" as a poetic experience, leading to the dissolution
of meaning in Michaux's and Dotremont's picto-poetic experimentations.
SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for abstracts (400 words) plus a brief cv: July 10, 2008.
Deadline for completed articles: November 30, 2008.
Articles may be written
in one of the following languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian
and German. Two abstracts in English and French (200 words each) should
accompany each submission.
Address your inquiries and submissions to Enrico Monti
<emonti@lingue.unibo.it> identifying 'Rilune' in the subject line.
Some bibliographical references are available on the RiLUnE website: http://www.rilune.org/ENGLISH/index.htm
All submission shall be peer-reviewed by the members of Rilune
editorial board.
The full call for papers is available on the RiLUnE website: http://www.rilune.org/ENGLISH/mono8/ideograms.htm
(posted 9 May '08)
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The Richard and Judy Book
Club Reader
Deadline for proposal: 31
July 2008
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How are reading habits
and preferences formed? Do we read what we discover in education, or
read what is recommended to us? Or do we build on random encounters
with authors and texts? Increasingly, book clubs and their
recommendations, like Richard & Judy's teatime TV reading
selections, advise the general public not only about what to read, but
also, that they should be reading something in the first place. In
response to this, almost every text recommended by the Richard &
Judy Book Club becomes a bestseller. But what impact does this have on
reading in general, on textual production, and on the way that we
categorise and analyse literature? And what textual properties are
required in order for a text to be admitted to the Richard & Judy
Book Club list, if there are any common characteristics at all?
Essays of 6-9000 words will address one of the following three
categories:
Section 1: Reading with
the Richard & Judy Book Club
This
section will explore the very recent change in attitude towards reading
in the UK, which has seen it develop into a popular rather than a niche
pastime. The Richard & Judy Book Club is part of this, and now
determines bestseller lists, whether the book club produced the upsurge
in reading or was formed in response to it.
Section 2: Promotion and the Richard & Judy Book Club
Essays
in this section will examine the categorisation and contextualisation
of texts chosen by The Richard and Judy Book Club in terms of how the
books are promoted and sold to the public.
Section 3: The texts of the Richard & Judy Book Club
This
section interrogates the specific texts included in the Richard and
Judy Book Club lists. The essays might take a single book to explore,
or consider several from the Richard and Judy Book Club lists; they
might also explore the role of TV and film adaptations.
Please get in touch by email if you would like a longer version of the
cfp.
Please send short CVs and
500-word abstracts indicating the category that your essay addresses by
July 31st 2008, to both Helen Cousins <h.cousins@newman.ac.uk>
and Jenni Ramone <j.ramone@newman.ac.uk>.
(posted 9 Apr '08)
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Trialogues: "The Canon versus
Anti-Canons: Assault on Cultural Values or the Value of Cultural
Assault?"
Deadline for proposals: 15
September 2008
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Trialogues as an online journal is
setting out to deal with contemporary literature by entering into
dialogic relations with writers, critics and fans to produce a constant
roving barrage of arguments about the meaning of Literature.
Trialogues is concerned with
thought experiment; with the testing of written modes to redraw our
interior maps of the literary and theoretical landscapes.
Trialogues is fundamentally about
peer debate and the critique of judgement drawn from the fast and
furious argument of the fanbase.
Our interest is chiefly
in cult writing and contemporary literatures; with the immediate and
the ignored, the overlooked and the undervalued. Notions we will
constantly examine and interrogate are those of "mainstream" versus
"underground" writing and the "fringes" and "margins" of culture.
Our critical approaches
will vary: We will be deliberately political on occasion, and proclaim
so loudly, with a mind to interrogating contemporary wisdom;
deliberately out of step on occasion, with the hope that this will
allow us to cover the ground that others have stepped over.
To this end we invite
contributions from those with passionate interest in contemporary
writing. Our inaugural issue will be on the subject of canonicity and
the relative problems this notion raises: 'The Canon versus
Anti-Canons: Assault on Cultural Values or the Value
of Cultural Assault?'
Possible topics include but are not
limited to: 'The Value(s) of "Cult" Writing'; 'Who Writes The Canon?';
'Immediacy in Literature'; 'Textual surface and textual audiences';
'Writing for "the masses"'; 'Tradition/Counter-Tradition'.
Contributions to be between 2000 and
4000 words in length.
Send electronic copies by
September
15th 2008 to either
<mark.williams@uea.ac.uk> or
<martyn.colebrook@english.hull.ac.uk>.
(posted 18 Apr '08)
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Postcolonial
Text
Special Issue: East Africa
Deadline for proposals: 30
September 2008
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Postcolonial Text is an
open access, electronic journal, which is both internationally
peer-reviewed and accessible to a global readership. The editors now
seek submissions for a specially-themed volume on the topic "Literature
and Culture in East Africa." This guest issue on contemporary East
African literature will be devoted to the political
crises in Africa, and an in-depth analysis of narratives
fromdifferently challenged communities and individuals. Of particular
concern are texts from the past decade and a half which have been
composed at the time multiparty elections were taking place in Kenya
and Tanzania, in the early 1990s, and during power-sharing negotiations
for Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya being held in hotels in
East Africa. All these political events have led to an emerging ethos
of democratic rule among citizens of Eastern Africa as an African
region. Despite the changes that are clearly visible in the social
mobility, migrations, access to jobs, training in the I C T, the
globalization which favours America and Western countries, yet to be
seen are credible institutional reforms to accommodate intra-ethnic
coexistence and the nature of the extant identities.
This Guest Issue will examine ethnic identities and accruing modes of
communication. Despite the fact that African countries seek to define
themselves as nations, creative writers do not adequately tackle the
vice of ethnic discrimination and social and political inequalities
that are engendered by ethnic biases. They have been led by statesmen.
They have parliaments, judiciaries, centres of excellence in culture
and education. But tensions of ethnic suspicions and rivalries still
persist. The post-election violence in Kenya, after the disputed
presidential elections of December 2007 shows that there are residual
issues in East African political culture which are yet to be addressed.
The concern about the stability and the economic future and the
democracies of East African countries is real.
The challenge is being made in this edition of Postcolonial Text
is to delineate the issues of aesthetics and negotiations of the
political and social space articulated in the literatures of East
Africa over
the last fifteen years. Completely oblivious of the implications, the
elite in East Africa and their ethnic groups look for alternatives to
cohesive nationhood. They celebrate cultural differences along ethnic
lines and bring out negative cultural practices that go against
inter-ethnic marriage.
The call here is for papers which analyse political party affiliations
based on regional strengths and ethnic loyalties. I welcome essays not
only on identity crisis in East Africa, Ethnic Identity, but also on
the growth of the various genres of literature in the region. Essays
that will enhance theoretical pathways and debates which political and
cultural identity crises have engendered. In addition to articles, I
invite book reviews, narratives and gnomic forms of oral literature
translated into English from East African languages, poems, short
stories, and contemporary skits on negative ethnicity. The issue will
highlight the new dynamics in East African culture and art in respect
of language and other modes of communication and show how theatre
practitioners, film makers, and media workers are experimenting with
artistic forms in order to communicate with their audience.
Deadline for all submissions is September 30, 2008.
Here is how to submit your contributions:
1. Go to the journal Web
site: http://www.postcolonial.org
2. Register as an Author by clicking on the question "do you wish to
register as an author."
3. Once registered and logged in, follow the submission process,
entering the title, abstract, and index terms, and click on "Submit" or
"Complete" at the bottom of the page.
4. Upload the submission as a Word doc. to "Special Issue on East
Africa" section. If you encounter any problems, send queries relating
to online submission to <Ranjini.Mendis@kwantlen.ca>.
For other queries, please contact:
Prof Chris L Wanjala
<cwanjala1944@yahoo.co.uk>
University of Nairobi,
P.O.Box 5644
00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
(post 25 Mar '08)
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Tribal Fantasies: 'Native
Americans' in the European Imagination, 1900-present
Deadline for proposals: 29
September 2008
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This collection aims to
investigate European re-imaginings of Indigenous American peoples and
cultures in the last century (including Native American, First Nations,
Native Hawai'ian, Inuit, and South American tribal peoples). We invite
abstracts of 250-350 words on any such re-imagining, including (but by
no means restricted to):
Depictions of
tribal/indigenous culture and/or religion in European literature, art
and film
"American Indian hobbyist" movements
Use of tribal/indigenous imagery in political movements
The influence of tribal/indigenous design on European fashion
Native American cartoons
Native Americans as symbol of American hegemony
Native Americans as symbol of resistance to American hegemony
Images of the Native in 20th century philosophy
The New Age industry
Tribal rhythms in popular music
The Ostern / Red Western
The history of European
appropriation of Indigenous lands and cultures in the Americas is long
and frequently bloody. In the twentieth century, however, as European
countries ceased to have formal colonial interests in the Americas, so
direct contact between Native and European largely ceased. But the
image of the Native American, as much a product of the colonial
imagination as any deep understanding of the disparate indigenous
cultures of the Americas, has proved enduring.
We welcome contributions
from all European countries and would be particularly interested in
transnational or trans-European articles.
Essays will be 6,000-8,000 words, referenced MLA endnote style.
Please send abstracts to both James Mackay at
<james.mackay@cytanet.com.cy> and David Stirrup at
<D.F.Stirrup@kent.ac.uk>, by Monday, September 29th, 2008.
(posted 6 May '08)
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Études irlandaises:
French Journal of Irish Studies
Deadline for proposals: 30
September 2008
|
 The Editorial Board of Études Irlandaises is
seeking submissions for the Spring 2009 volume of the journal.
Scientific project of the
review : Études Irlandaises
is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in English and French
which explore all aspects of Irish literature, history, culture and
arts from ancient times to the present. Etudes Irlandaises publishes
twice a year on a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects including:
poetry / fiction / drama / film / music / politics / economy / social
studies, etc.
General issues published in Spring alternate with special issues in
Autumn .
Études Irlandaises is aimed
at scholars, postgraduate students, institutions specializing in Irish
studies as well as people who have an informed interest in the subject.
Each number has a comprehensive section devoted to recently published
material on Ireland.
Submissions must be sent before September 30 (in order to be published
in the Spring issue of the following year).
For more information on stylesheet requirements and submission
procedure, visit our website:
http://etudes-irlandaises.septentrion.com/
Contacts:
For literature, Prof. Sylvie Mikowski (Univ.Reims),
<sylvie.mikowski@noos.fr>
For history, civilisation, politics, Dr Karin Fischer
(Univ.Orléans), <karin.fischer@wanadoo.fr>
For visual arts, Prof. Anne Goarzin (Univ.Rennes2),
<anne.goarzin@wanadoo.fr>
For book reviews, Cliona Ni Riordain (Univ. Paris 3)
<cliona.niriordain@club-internet.fr>
(posted 30 Apr '08, updated
6 May '08)
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European
Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 14, Issue 1
Beyond Trauma: the Uses of
the Past in XXI Century Europe
Guest Editors: Jacek
Gutorow, David Kennedy & Jerzy Jarniewicz
Deadline for proposals: 15
October 2008
|
 The
uses and abuses of cultural memory are inescapable facts of life in
contemporary Europe. For example, the process of (re)construction of
memory in the former Yugoslavia or in post-1990 Poland bears witness to
the powerful desire of individuals and nations to transform history
into narrative and interpretation. Cultural memory is therefore
produced through acts of commemoration transformed into rhetoric. As
Andreas Huyssen (2003) and others have noted, the rhetoric of memory is
often dominated by the idea of 'trauma'. As such, the rhetorical acts
of memory and commemoration might be said to founded on ideas of
wounding and healing. Their articulation and performance often seems
then to involve a paradoxical act: a healing-through-voicing that is
also a means of self-identification that relies on keeping the original
'wound' fresh and raw.
Do we therefore need new
models of cultural memory 'beyond trauma'?
What should these involve? What is the (latent) rhetoric through which
cultural memory transforms itself into commemoration? Is this rhetoric
encoded into art and literature to such an extent that new models of
cultural memory would need to involve a kind of resistance to art and
literature themselves? Could new models of cultural memory be more
concerned, after Sontag’s famous dictum, with the erotics of art as
opposed to hermeneutic procedures? At the same time, it is important to
note that cultural memory involves ideas of the future. Re-articulating
and recovering the past necessarily involves the re-articulation and
recovery of the past’s ideas of the future. An urgent question then
becomes whether the very 'pastness' of cultural memory enables or
disables new conceptions of the future.
In this issue, we invite papers that explore the complex and uneasy
relationships between representations of the past and their
impositions, and between modes of commemoration and their rhetoric,
from specialists in all fields of the study of languages, literatures
and cultures in English. Topics might include:
• methods of recording and repressing memory as well
as modes of post-traumatic melancholy and mourning;
• methods of dealing with memory that question the
rationalising of each and every commemorative act;
• the transformation of cultural memory into
commemoration;
• the function and role of the archive and
archivisation;
• the 'uncanny' past;
• what happens when cultural memory crosses
national/cultural boundaries?
• the sociolinguistics of commemoration – e.g. the
conversion of trauma sites into tourist sites;
• the influence of English as a global language on
memory/forgetting;
• the role of the study and teaching of literature in
the rhetoric of memory and/or resistance to that rhetoric;
• the future point(s) at which can be said cultural memory
to be 'over'; when does it pass and can it pass out of memory?
Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5,000 words, as
well as any inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent by e-mail to
all three guest editors: Jacek Gutorow at
<jacek.gutorow@neostrada.pl>, Jerzy Jarniewicz at
<jjarniew@krysia.uni.lodz.pl>, and David Kennedy at
<D.Kennedy@hull.ac.uk>. The deadline for proposals is 15 October
2008, with delivery of completed essays by 31 March 2009. The issue
will appear in Spring 2010.
For futher information regarding EJES more generally, go to the Taylor
& Francis website.
(posted 4 Oct '07)
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European
Journal of English Studies,
Vol. 14, Issue 2
Crime Narratives: Crossing
Cultures and Disciplines
Guest Editors: Maurizio
Ascari & Heather Worthington
Deadline for proposals: 15
October 2008
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 Crime is common to all cultures but is simultaneously
culturally specific: narratives of crime, then, cross cultures while
articulating cultural difference. Crime is personal and political;
forms of deviance and transgression are not a-historical and ready made
but represent a continuous negotiation between social and cultural
forces, between the individual and the collective.
Crime narratives can also
act as a kind of connective tissue across disciplinary boundaries,
forging links yet questioning the relations between fact and fiction,
literature and law, history, philosophy, psychology, languages, social
science, media studies, medicine. Crime is not confined to or contained
in a single form: its narratives appear in print, on celluloid, canvas,
in stone. There are written narratives and oral accounts, witness
statements and pop songs, photographs and films. Crime narratives are a
nexus and offer a place of commonality from which cultures and cultural
relations can be re-read and disciplinary boundaries and relationships
reconsidered.
The editors invite
submissions on crime narratives from specialists across the disciplines
of English Studies. Questions that you may wish to consider include,
but are by no means restricted to:
• Are crime narratives wholly context-specific?
• How do crime narratives relate to wider cultural
practices?
• How do crime narratives relate to the real and
perceived threat of violence and social disorder?
• In what ways do crime narratives interrogate the
relation between fact and fiction, story and discourse?
• What is at stake in trans-cultural
rewritings/translations of crime narratives?
• How are the conventions of crime narratives
affected by genre and modality?
• Have crime narratives contributed to the
hybridisation of genres?
Papers exploring crime
narratives from the perspective of literary studies, cultural studies,
linguistics, anthropology, history, law, or other disciplines connected
to the study of English are welcome.
Detailed proposals
(500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5,000 words, as well as any
inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent by e-mail to both the
guest editors: Maurizio Ascari at <maurizio.ascari@unibo.it> and
Heather Worthington at <WorthingtonHJ@Cardiff.ac.uk>.
The deadline for proposals is 15 October 2008, with delivery of
completed essays by 31 March 2009. The issue will appear in Summer 2010.
For futher information regarding EJES more generally, go to the Taylor
& Francis website.
(posted 24 Mar '08)
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Permanently Valid Calls for Papers
The Brontës and the
Idea of Influence
A thematic dossier in the
“Writers, writings” section of LISA e-journal
|
 In March 2007, Stevie Davies, Patricia
Duncker and Michele Roberts gathered around Patsy Stoneman at Haworth
in Yorkshire to talk about the influence that the Brontës had had
on their evolutions as authors, and more generally, about the source of
inspiration that the most famous family of writers in England could
represent. Patsy Stoneman had already tackled the topic by publishing a
book entitled The Brontë
Influence in 2004 with the help of Charmian Knight. The issue of LISA e-journal "Re-Writing Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre, Past and Present" is
further evidence of Charlotte Brontë's influence on the writers of
the following decades or centuries. So far, these studies have been
quite limited and this field of research, "the Brontë influence",
offers a wide range of possible developments.
Moreover, if the four authors' poetry and novels have already been the
object of numerous studies, there is much left to write about the
influences which were exerted on the Brontës, whether religious,
literary, philosophical or cultural. Taking account of the context
of a work is often a good way of understanding the issues
underlying a text: the path taken by the Brontës, their journeys,
their stays abroad, the books they read, etc. could prove to be very
enlightening. Besides these external factors, one could also consider
the interactions between the three sisters, who wrote in the same room
and who read passages from their works aloud.
A final aspect to identify and study could be the influences which are
exerted within the Brontës' works themselves. How can one account
for the progress of the heroes and heroines? How is the influence that
characters have on one another expressed? What role does nature play in
the destiny of characters? Which other elements intervene in the novels?
This dossier devoted to the Brontës intends to analyse the works
through the perspective of influence and three different fields of
research can thus be considered:
- influences on the Brontës
- the idea of influence in the Brontës’ works
- the Brontë influence on the writers of the
19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Please send your proposals (one A4 page maximum) to Dr. Élise
Ouvrard <ouvrard_elise@hotmail.com>.
Accepted articles will be
published in the thematic dossier "The Brontës and the Idea of
Influence" in the "Writers, writings" section of LISA e-journal:
http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/lisa/publicationsGb.php?p=2&numId=0&it=dossiers
(posted 10 Jan '08)
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