BARNOLIPI is an Interdisciplinary International Research Journal http: http://www.barnolipi.com
BARNOLIPI accepts articles from any academic discipline or field of study.
BARNOLIPI is an Open Access Interdisciplinary Journal, Students / Professors (from different Departments / Streams) of an Institution can access it freely to fulfill their academic need.
It accepts articles written in Bengali and English only.

Submit Articles by April 5, 2013 in the following categories:

(posted 28 February 2013)

Whether thematised, reported, directly dramatised, or simply hinted at, "voice" as pure sound object in fiction has deserved little critical attention. Recent theoretical developments in the psychoanalytical field -- most notably, Mladen Dolar’' 2006 monographic study A Voice and Nothing More -- provide an invaluable tool for a more systematic approach to a recurrent topic which has been nearly neglected in favour of "the gaze" (for which psychoanalysis itself is to be made partly responsible) and of "writing" as the support of original difference that undermines the myth of presence which deconstruction precisely attacks as a metaphysics of the voice. Understandably, poetry has been by far the major focus of theoretical and critical interest regarding the objectual, material side of sound effects present in writing (e.g. D. Wesling and T. Slawek, Literary Voice [1995]).
Yet, attention to the status of the object voice as the meaningless supplement of the differential operations of signification opens up new ways to approach central questions such as subjectivity, ideology, spectrality, ethics, authority and otherness in fiction. Claire Kahane's Passions of the Voice (1995) and, particularly, a bunch of recent essays on English modernists (e.g. M. Ellmann’s "Joyce’s Voices", 2009; J. Paccaud-Huguet's "A Remainder that Spoils the Ear", 2008; or A. Ramel "Tess's Silent Cry", 2008) are an index of the relevance, topicality and potential of this issue. Indeed, sound-effects are a crucial narrative element not only in classic novels such as Gulliver's Travels (and its babel of odd-sounding words), Wuthering Heights (and its partly aural ghosts) or Ulysses (and its wordplay and its variety of sound-effects), but also in less known shorter pieces like, for instance, Muriel Sparks' "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (in which a young office clerk is haunted by the echo of the tunes whistled by her boss, a man revealingly called Mr Letter) or A. L. Kennedy's "A Bad Son" (in which word pronunciation and screaming play a central role in the protagonist's predicament). However, "object voice" as a theoretical concept and as a literary element is not restricted to human sounds alone, but encompasses a wide variety of acoustic effects that range from music, mechanical noises and the din of urban crowds to the sounds of nature and to silence itself as, paradoxically, "the object voice par excellence" (Žižek “’I Hear You with My Eyes’” 1996, 92).

Our plan is to put together a volume of essays that explore this topic in modern fiction in English (18th century to the present) preferably, though not exclusively, from a psychoanalytical perspective based on the Lacanian concept of the voice as partial object as developed by M. Dolar, S. Žižek and others.
Those interested should send a 600-word abstract of the proposed paper and a brief biographical note by April 13, 2013 to <jorge.sacido@usc.es>. We will request the authors of selected abstracts to send the full MS (6,000 to 9,000 words in length and following the MLA Style Manual 2008 ed.) by September 30, 2013. Once this second stage of the process is completed, the editor will approach a quality publisher with the book proposal. Our initial plan is that volume will be published in 2014.
Jorge SACIDO
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of English
Dept. of English and German Philology
University of Santiago de Compostela
Editor of Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English (Rodopi 2012 ("Postmodern Studies Series" nº 48).

(posted 18 February 2013)

It's been almost 20 years now since R.W. Connell published her groundbreaking and inspiring work, Masculinities, and masculinity studies has become a major field of study, a conceptual domain ready to come out of the closet, and a central critical point of reference in gender, identity, power and trans-anything discussions. The debate over the public visibility and hierarchy of gendered identities has manifested itself as a complicated conflict area more strongly than ever. It has often been reassured that it is of utmost importance to define and redefine the scope of masculinity studies, to establish its basic methodology, and maintain a balance between the ambiguity of interdisciplinary studies and objectivity of a scientific field.
We have been working on a peer reviewed online journal that will be published biannually in English and that will serve to provide an independent forum for issues of gender, identity and culture, with a particular emphasis on masculinity studies. Masculinities offers a joint ground for the interdisciplinary and pioneering research in the field of gender and masculinity, necessarily outreaching into arts, literature, history, sociology, philosophy, communications, linguistics, and medicine so as to enable researchers to share their work, discuss prospective projects, learn from each other, and inspire young scholars.
We invite scholarly and critical contributions, including articles, book and film reviews, reviews of the published articles as well as announcements of forthcoming events, conference reports, and information on other matters of interest to gender studies and/or masculinity studies for the inaugural issue to be published in June 2013. The contributions to the journal should be sent to the email address given below as of April 15, 2013 and they may be related (but not limited) to the topics listed below. You can visit our website for the submission guidelines and further details and you can join our email group that provides updates and recent news as well as announcements and call for papers for the symposiums and journals on masculinity and gender studies.

Sexism and masculinity
Morality and masculinity
Ideology and masculinity
Philosophy and masculinity
Medicine and masculinity
Aesthetics and masculinity
Disability and masculinity
Fatherhood and masculinity
Buddy relations and masculinity
Orientalism and masculinity
Occidentalism and masculinity
Fashion and masculinity
Music and masculinity
Alcohol and masculinity
Masculinity in travel literature
Professional life and masculinity
Football and masculinity
Spatial perception and masculinity
Sports and masculinity
Gastronomy and masculinity
Racism and masculinity
Theology and masculinity
Rituals and masculinity
Ethics and masculinity
Detective fiction and masculinity
Science fiction and masculinity
Fantastic fiction and masculinity
Historical fiction and masculinity
Mass media and masculinity
Film studies and masculinity
Television and masculinity
Law and masculinity
Business and masculinity
Bureaucracy and masculinity
Technology and masculinity
Politics and masculinity
Crime and masculinity
Cyberculture and masculinity
Violence and masculinity
Mythology and masculinity
Evil and masculinity
Mobility and masculinity
Service industry and masculinity
Internet and masculinity
Pornography and masculinity
Eroticism and masculinity
Beauty and masculinity
Ugliness and masculinity
Perversion and masculinity
Transgression and masculinity
Performance arts and masculinity
Dance and masculinity
Legends and masculinity
Body and masculinity
Oral literature and masculinity
Death and masculinity
Sexuality and masculinity
Aging and masculinity
Melancholia and masculinity
Worshiping and masculinity
Queer theory and masculinity
Feminism and masculinity
History and masculinity
Power and masculinity
Homosexuality and masculinity
Cultural topography and masculinity
Engineering and masculinity
Food culture and masculinity
Publishing and masculinity
Sea and masculinity
Monstrosity and masculinity
Scapegoats and masculinity
Military and masculinity
War and masculinity
Martial arts and masculinity
Transgender and masculinity
Childcare and masculinity
Humor and masculinity
Comic books and masculinity
Anime culture and masculinity
Graphic arts and masculinity
Photography and masculinity
Gaze and masculinity
Make-up and masculinity
AIDS and masculinity
Hair and masculinity
Animals and masculinity
Fame and masculinity
Honor and masculinity
Adventure and masculinity
Design and masculinity
Cyberculture and masculinity
Information Technologies and masculinity
Performativity and masculinity
Grotesque and masculinity
Reason and masculinity
Emotions and masculinity
Homophobia and masculinity

website: http://masculinitiesjournal.wordpress.com
mail: <masculinitiesjournal@gmail.com>
mail group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!forum/masculinitiesjournal

(posted 6 March 2013)

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." Eleanor Roosevelt, presentation of : IN YOUR HANDS: A Guide for Community Action for the Tenth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27th, 1958.

The sixth issue of the on-line journal e-CRIT3224 (http://e-crit3224.univ-fcomte.fr) published by the research centre CRIT at the Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon), will be devoted to the notion of human rights as it has been defined, used and embodied in English language literatures. Articles will be published in English or in French. This issue intends to investigate how this universal notion has been the setting or subject of poems, plays, novels, short stories or autobiographies written in English, over the ages and across continents. It will also study how literature has exposed Human Rights abuse or lauded its defenders.
From the spirit of the French Revolution that imbued Romanticism, to slave narratives in North America, to Tony Morrison’s quest for origins, to writings on and from the Celtic periphery, the notion of respect for or acquisition of human rights has played central role in both fictional and autobiographical production written from the margin. Postcolonial literatures, be they Indian, North-American or African, have equally found in the literary form a fertile ground to express the experience of colonialism and its aftermath or give voice to those committed to the coming of a fairer society in which the right of minorities are respected.
Human Rights should here be understood as those expressed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the following themes could be studied in relation to fictional treatment: the alienation of indigenous land by settlers, the oppression of minorities, the economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) of oppressed communities, freedom of expression, women’s rights and equal opportunities, domestic violence, the right to education, the supporters of human rights and the fight against oppression, at a local, individual level.

e-CRIT is the CRIT online journal (ISSN 2107-6537). Four issues have already been published (plus one special issue) and a fifth one should come out soon.

Contributors will send an abstract of 400 words, in French or English, with a short bio-bibliography, for April 30th, 2013, at the following e-mail address:
This issue will be online by February 2014.

(posted 19 February 2013)

Edited by Roberto Di Scala (Istituto Professionale per i Servizi Commerciali "Paolo Belmesseri", Villafranca in Lunigiana, Italy)
To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/WzsC2q

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is increasingly becoming a basic issue for researchers and for teachers alike. Recently, there has been an upsurge of studies and findings about this variety of English. Seminal works by leading scholars such as Jennifer Jenkins, Anna Mauranen, Barbara Seidlhofer, Alessia Cogo, and Martin Dewey have paved the way for different threads of analysis in the field.
One of the newest, most challenging issues is the introduction of ELF in the daily teaching of English as a Foreign Language in secondary schools. Teachers and instructors can now face the problem of how to cope with ELF in the classroom: what exactly is the role of ELF in the school curriculum and syllabus? To what extent can teachers/instructors rely on this variety of the language while teaching English? Are ELF-oriented and ELF-based approaches to teaching English to be supported or are they to be sanctioned as they may possibly infringe national guidelines strictly focused on a single national variety of English?
Since it is the teachers/instructors who deal with the practical aspects of this issue every day in the classroom, it is time that their opinions, experience, research, as well as practical cases were brought to the foreground in order to assess if ELF can help teachers and students to achieve a really effective level of language command and mastery. 

Objective of the Book
The volume aims at presenting a survey of an ELF-oriented approach to teaching English as a Foreign Language in secondary education throughout Europe. The chapters will be grouped into two categories: theoretical framework and practical cases. The first category will collect contributions investigating the theory behind ELF-oriented and ELF-based approaches to teaching English. Its aim is to understand how the theoretical background can help instructors to devise their teaching methodologies accordingly and to see to what extent school curricula and syllabi can be affected by them, thus bringing new perspectives to this area of research. The second group will focus on practical cases which should be related to the contributions presented in the first part. They should, in other words, be the practical application of research into the classroom, and be supported by first-hand data and teachers’ reflections and considerations on the pros and cons in order to evaluate the applicability of the above-mentioned ELF-based and ELF-oriented approaches.
It is the aim of the volume to offer a survey of how ELF can and/or is currently introduced into the classroom throughout Europe, and of how teachers can become and/or are (becoming) aware of the potential of using ELF to teach their students English in a more effective way. 

Target Audience
The volume will be of interest to teachers of secondary education institutions who wish to try new, effective ways of teaching English as a Foreign Language. Researchers and instructors in the field will also be prospective readers of the volume.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 30, 2013, a 2-4 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of her or his proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 15, 2013, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference", "Business Science Reference", and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints.
For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com
This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important dates
May 30, 2013: New extended proposal submission deadline
August 30, 2013: Full chapter submission
October 30, 2013: Review results returned
November 30, 2013: Final chapter submission
February 15, 2014: Final deadline

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:

(posted 20 March 2013, updated 5 May 2013)

Straddling the geographic and cultural borders between Scotland and Ireland and sprawling over the many textual genres it incorporates, haunts and appropriates, Celtic Gothic remains a fertile and productive topic for contemporary scholarship which embodies a range of time periods, often benchmarked as moving from the writing of Hogg and Scott to present day. As much a hybrid as a double, the Gothic is a nexus and a thematic nuclear that lends itself well to an interrogation of Celtic culture. Following the success of the Spectral Gothic symposium in June 2012 at the University of Sunderland, proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary collection of essays oriented around "Celtic Gothic".

The editors identify many pertinent themes and topics including but not limited to:

Alison Younger (University of Sunderland) and Martyn Colebrook (Independent Scholar) invite abstracts of 300 words to be submitted electronically to:
Deadlines for submission of abstracts is 1st May 2013. Please put "Celtic Gothic Collection" in the subject line and your proposal will be acknowledged.

(posted 9 November 2012)

The Human (http://www.humanjournal.org) is an international and interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles written in the fields of literatures in English (British, American, and postcolonial), classical and modern Turkish literature, drama, sociology, comparative literature, and cultural studies as well as creative works of art such as poems, short stories, and plays.

Please view our submission guidelines here: http://www.humanjournal.org/index.php/submission/guidelines

The deadline of submissions for the June 2013 issue is May 5, 2013. Submissions we receive after this date will be considered for the later issues of the journal. All works will be peer-reviewed.

As for poetry submissions, we are asking for no more than three poems (five pages maximum) sent at one time. Please, only one submission in one reading period.

Submissions or inquiries should be emailed to <human@humanjournal.org>.

(posted 23 February 2013)

In the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell's first solo-play, Trifles, was performed by the Provincetown Players on the stage of the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, MA. The following year, this one-act play -- inspired by the Hossack murder trial (1900-1901) which Glaspell, then a legislative reporter, had covered for the Des Moines Daily News -- was adapted into a short-story and published in the Sunday Star Magazine under the title "A Jury of Her Peers." To celebrate the centennial of what have now become twin American classics, this collection of essays will be devoted to both Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers."

Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers": A Centennial Celebration seeks to honor the anniversary of these influential texts by opening new perspectives that take the discussion beyond the significant body of feminist, cultural, and historical scholarship that has accrued since their rediscovery in the 1970s. Also, taking into account the growing international interest in Susan Glaspell, the editors are eager to give an international dimension to the collection and therefore encourage submissions from scholars around the world. The focus of the proposed anthology is methodological rather than thematic, including -- but not limited to:
 
The submission process will be two-fold:

1) A detailed abstract (about 1000 words + title of your article) should be sent by May15, 2013. The abstract should be followed by a list of key words and by a short biographical note (about 300 words). The document will be sent to both:
- Martha C. Carpentier <Martha.Carpentier@shu.edu>
- and Emeline Jouve <emeline.jouve@gmail.com>.
The document should be sent in the form of a Microsoft Word document saved as "Centennial_your name”")

2) By June 30, 2013, applicants will receive an answer about their proposals from the editors and those accepted should submit their articles (from 5,000 to 7,000 words; MLA format) by September 30, 2013.

For any further information, please contact the editors, Martha C. Carpentier (Seton Hall University, NJ, USA) and Emeline Jouve (Toulouse II University, France), at: <martha.carpentier@shu.edu> and <emeline.jouve@gmail.com>.

(posted 1 February 2013)

This call for papers invites submissions for the third edition of HARTS & Minds due to be published online in September 2013. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words in length and articles no longer than 6000 words. Your article may explore but is not limited to the following subjects:

Please submit your abstract and draft article along with an academic CV to editors@harts-minds.co.uk by 17th May 2013. Please consider that HARTS & Minds is intended as a truly inter-disciplinary journal and therefore esoteric topics will need to be written about with a general academic readership in mind.

Articles should be previously unpublished works and copyright of published articles will remain with HARTS & Minds. The editors accept no responsibility for copyright infringement of images, graphs, etc used by individuals submitting papers to the journal. You must ensure that you have permission to use any visual or graphic material before submitting your paper. Further information about submission guidelines is available at the journal website, http://www.harts-minds.co.uk. If you have any pressing questions or concerns please use the aforementioned email address to contact the editorial board.

<daniel@harts-minds.co.uk>
HARTS & Minds: http://www.harts-minds.co.uk

(posted 28 February 2013)

The 2014 edition of the journal Etudes écossaises will be on the theme of relations between Scotland and England. In a watershed year for Scotland where the resonances of the past will clearly form a constant background to vital contemporary debates, we will thus continue to explore the process of rewriting the canon within the research project set by Grenoble 3 - Stendhal University's Centre d’étude sur les modes de la representation du monde Anglophone (CEMRA).

Reviewing the canonical status of England as Scotland's constituent Other will be this issue’s focus, to coincide with a socio-political context where re-assessing, re-interpreting and possibly re-writing the relationship have taken centre stage.  

England: the Auld Enemy?”

In light of 2014’s planned Bannockburn centenary commemorations, with the legacy of the Act of Union already being hotly contested by both sides in the run-up to the Independence referendum, it is an opportune moment to seek papers which advance scholarly knowledge of the conflicts and disputes, but also the ties, the joint traditions and the sense of a common destiny that have bound Scotland to her nearest neighbour. We particularly seek papers which, in light of contemporary theories or research, reassess historical events and periods, discourses, schools of thought, cultural phenomena and literary works whose influence and standing in presenting the relationship between Scotland and England confer them with canonical status. As such, the presentation, borrowed from popular sporting parlance, of England as "the Auld Enemy?" is merely intended as a spur to further inquiry and as a challenge to reveal and unsettle the mythologies which often form a national doxa.

We welcome papers from any specialty within the field of Scottish studies which cast new light on Scottish-English relations, for example by reassessing questions of identity and differentiation, separateness and commingling, tradition and filiation, precedent and rupture, rivalry and alliance, animosity and attraction, frontiers and hybrids, intermediaries, cross-border cooperation, nationalist, unionist and international perspectives.

 Papers( 5,000-8,000 words) may be submitted in French or in English.

A brief proposal (300-500 words) should be sent by 1st June 2013.
The deadline for finished papers is October 1st 2013.

Contact: <david.leishman@u-grenoble3.fr>

(posted 15 November 2012)

The Great Historical Figures in Art and Literature Project is inspired by the researches on perspectivism in history that have been put to the fore in the domain of "cultural memories". The project aims at showing how great historical figures appear in literature and in various arts (sculpture, painting, music, cinema, tapestries etc.). We wish to focus on how the images associated with these figures and their prominence have varied through time and how their role in the building of a collective memory has been liable to many changes.
The Great Historical Figures in Art and Literature will publish articles on a regular basis (about twice a year).

Possible Themes (a non-exhaustive list):

N° 1 is about to be launched. The website will be improved shortly
The articles will be submitted to a committee and published on the website. A first list of historical figures may be established from the various biographical dictionaries, from the genre of the "illustrious men and women", from the works of praise and eulogies. The 19th century La Biographie ancienne et moderne can be considered as a model since it refers both to historical and to fictional works. The articles will answer both to academic and public concerns. Whereas contemporary biographical dictionaries only stress factual details, the project aims at helping the general reader in the decipherment and the interpretation of historical allusions. The ideological context makes the identification all the more difficult since contemporary history writings and contemporary novels denounce the "intentional fallacy". The promotion, by the liberals, of lay models during the 19th century has been rejected by postmodernism as undemocratic. Hence, despite the vogue of historical bestsellers, the use of traditional figures and of traditional models has become more and more obscure and needs to be explained. All approaches are welcome, all periods and geographical or cultural areas are concerned.

The articles will be sent to f<iona.mcintosh-varjabedian@univ-lille3.fr> or <alison.boulanger@univ-lille3.fr>
Theoretical articles will not exceed 8000 words, book reviews will  not exceed 4000 words.
The articles in English will follow the MLA Chicago style. Notes are accepted. Deadline for submission for the second number : 1/ 06/2012. Articles may be published in French, English or German.

(posted 21 January 2013)

The editorial team of the Commonwealth Studies branch of the CAS research group at University Toulouse 2, France, is pleased to announce a call for contributions to a scholarly reference book to be published by the Presses universitaires du Mirail in the spring of 2015. The ebook will be entitled A Companion to Commonwealth Studies: Cultural Relations since 1884; it is intended to be used as an inexpensive and easily-updated reference book, made up of succinct but scholarly articles.
The CAS1 research team, which for two years will function as an editorial board, has two aims for this publication. The first is to complexify the vision of the modern Commonwealth as primarily a cultural entity by demonstrating, article after article, the interesting complexity implied in a history of cultural events which have occurred within the geopolitical area known as the Commonwealth. Our second and shameless objective is to showcase French research on literary, cultural and linguistic aspects of the Commonwealth, alongside contributions from international scholars.

Much more information about the intended publication can be found on these Web pages: http://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/cwcomp/

We very much hope that as many colleagues as possible will find something to inspire them to sign up for an article. If not, the editorial board welcomes suggestions for entries which spring from a particular area of expertise which you feel would fit in with our general approach to cultural relations within the Commonwealth. No justification is needed to sign up for one of the suggested entries, and we require only a short explanation for an entry not mentioned in our non-exhaustive list.

But, for reasons outlined on the website, the deadline for sending us your choices or suggestions is very short: June 10, 2013.

(posted 25 May 2013)

Editors:
Deadline for full papers: 1st December 2013 (Abstracts: 15th June 2013)

The Indian diaspora is the largest within the Asian diaspora as the Indian community scattered around the world is over 25 million. Besides, the special features that distinctively shape Indian diaspora make of it an outstanding phenomenon. Its large scale bring together a kaleidoscopic community mirroring from distant places the many regions, languages, cultural heritage, religions and traditions that India comprises. The Indian population residing outside India brightly stand out for their professional success and growing social and economic impact in combination with their idiosyncratic cultural bond with India. Therefore it is not surprising to find out that Indian diaspora is regularly discussed in academic writings, literary writings, economic forums, government organizations, film and media productions.

The purpose of the present volume is to gather together essays from as diverse backgrounds as possible (linguistics, literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, history of art, film studies, theatre studies, etc.) in order to offer an in depth study and analysis of the diasporic practices of the Indian communities. The following themes are of interest to the volume:

We seek contributions that approach Indian diaspora from different and varied perspectives. Scholars are invited to engage with this topic in a fruitful dialogue and insightful analysis. Different critical stances and approaches are welcome.

Prospective authors are invited to submit a formal abstract (300-500 words) and a short bio by 15th June 2013. After approval, full papers (3500-6000 words) must be submitted by 1st December 2013. The volume is likely to appear by mid 2014 from a refereed publishing house still to be confirmed. Abstracts and full papers should be sent as attachments as Word files (2003 or 2007 versions) following latest MLA style sheet instructions to: <dwivediveena81@gmail.com> and <cristina.gamez@uco.es>.

(posted 28 February 2013)

Journal website: http://meridiancritic.usv.ro  

The past decades have seen a growing interest in the body, in its literary representation as well as its historical, social, and philosophical construction. This certifies the fact that corporeality is no longer viewed as a Cartesian entity. The Cartesian epistemology, with its huge impact on the classical aesthetic ideology, praised the mind while devaluing the body. The usurpation of the body -- equated with miscalculation and hesitation -- reverberated through modernity and put its decisive imprint on the philosophical description of subjectivity and on its representation through discourse. Yet, not even the skeptical Montaigne, who protested against the unnatural divorce of body and mind as early as the 16th century, could have anticipated the postmodernist vision of the body as dissociated from both the mind and experiential reality.
What is the significance of the body from our cultural perspective? The term still denotes an entity properly delimited yet liquefied, universal yet autonomous, vital in defining tradition yet unsealed by history. What is still natural about the human body? Contemporary anthropology prefers talking about body multiple, whereas cultural studies deal with body culture instead. Body modification and reformation through fashion, tattoos, piercing, plastic surgery, sports, yoga, diets or due to illness, aging, physical and mental degradation and death are topics of great interest in contemporary debates. The body is the place for the inscription of socio-cultural practices. The body is therefore a text: it may be read, interpreted, translated, transposed, presupposed, and deposed. Similarly, the text is a body that can be reshaped, mutilated or cosmeticized through translation, critical interpretation, cinematographic adaptation, etc.

Article proposals on these questions or any other aspect of the subject matter are invited. Possible topics could include, but are not limited to the discussion of the following aspects:

We welcome papers in English, German, French, and Romanian.
Abstracts (c. 200 words) and full papers (up to c. 7,000 words), together with a brief biographical sketch (c. 400 words), are to be sent to the following address: <l_turcu@yahoo.com>.

(posted 10 April 2013)

http://lexis.univ-lyon3.fr/spip.php?article189
Guest-editors :

The e-journal Lexis is planning to publish its nineth issue, which will focus on the status of the lexicon in speaker-centered theories, in June 2014.
These theories differ from other theories, in so far as they seek to analyse languages through attested utterances. As a result, they try to take into account the context of the utterances, the relationship between the speaker and the co-speaker, as well as the conversational data involved, in order to explain their form and how their interpretation is construed.
This issue of E-Lexis aims to explore the extent to which these theoretical choices have an impact on the way the lexicon is envisaged and how the relations between lexicon, syntax, morphology, phonology, pragmatics, semantics are organised. Are these domains independent or do they interact ?
A number of previous studies have focussed on the search to define an "invariant" or "basic value", underlying various phenomena, and it is necessary to establish whether it is through these particular analyses that the lexicon has found its place in the theory.
What is a lexical unit in this approach ? What is its status ?
Using contextualised examples, the articles can propose specific analyses, in order to understand divergences from other theoretical approaches, or possible similarities. They can also consider related epistemological questions.
Manuscripts may be written in French or English and should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 10 lines in French and English, as well as a list of 5 key words. They should be sent to the General Editor of Lexis, Denis Jamet, as e-mail attachments, (Word and pdf), and will be refereed by members of the international Scientific Committee. (Manuscripts may be accepted either in their original form, subject to revision or refused). Articles are limited to 8,000 words, excluding references ; data sets and illustrative and complementary material can be accommodated in appendices, for which there is no size limit.
Scientific board : Jean Albrespit, Claude Delmas, Lionel Dufaye, Gérard Mélis, Jean- Marie Merle, Nigel Quayle, Graham Ranger.

Deadline for sending in abstracts : 15 June 2013.
Deadline for sending in papers accepted : 15 March 2014.
Abstracts and articles will be sent via email at <lexis@univ-lyon3.fr>.

(posted 5 May 2013)

Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the Department of the English Language and the Department of English Language Literatures at Opole University, Poland (for more information see http:// www.explorations.uni.opole.pl). The December 2013 issue of Explorations takes as its theme the notion of limits.

The language section chooses as its motto Wittgenstein's famous words: "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." We thus seek articles that investigate the connections between language and human thought and/or explore the ways in which our understanding of such connections influences or limits the study and teaching of language in the academy.

The literature section invites articles which critically examine encounters or confrontations involving literary and non-literary works as they reach the limits of the conventions imposed on them. What happens when such limits have been crossed? What kind of extra-literary space is opened when a literary text interacts with a painting, a movie or a musical composition and is transformed by them? What is the nature of such interactions? Can we speak of "pure literature"? Or maybe we should say that the literary work is necessarily infected with other modes of expression? Is writing just writing?

Contributions are expected by June 30, 2013. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 30, 2013.

For style sheet and further information, please consult the journal web page at http:// www.explorations.uni.opole.pl

(posted 14 January 2013)

For over four decades G.B. Trudeau's Doonesbury strip has reflected and refracted America's national narratives, atomising and coalescing them within the strip format to a global audience. Chronicling, dramatising and defining key debates of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, the Pulitzer prize-winning Doonesbury has also intervened in and shaped their trajectory. Using and subverting the narrative strip form as a prism through which to explore, catalogue, landmark and define its contemporary moment, Doonesbury represents a significant artistic, cultural, comedic and critical achievement.
Doonesbury's status as a symptomatic corollary, imaginative rendition, cultural-historical document, and exploration of America, as well as the strip’s diversity of interests, global reach, and cultural reception and standing, offer fertile grounds for fresh contemporary readings hitherto unfulfilled by academic engagement. Proposals are therefore invited for an edited collection of critical and cultural essays to be published through Manchester University Press that engage with the long-running, iconic strip.

The following themes are broadly suggested as points for discussion and points of departure for submitted proposals:

It must be stressed that these are only suggested areas of discussion and that proposals dealing with any aspect of the strip, or advancing alternative disciplinary or theoretical approaches will be considered.
Proposals should be no more than 800 words in length, and should be submitted to <a.jackson@mmu.ac.uk> no later than July 31st 2013.
Inquiries are welcome and should also be addressed to <a.jackson@mmu.ac.uk>.

(posted 5 May 2013)

Sophie Prévost et Shirley Carter-Thomas (eds.)

This issue will focus on the correlations between initial elements (i.e. elements that precede the subject and/or verb), or their absence, and certain "linguistic events" which occur in the host sentence and in the textual sequence (the following and preceding sentences).
We invite studies based on one or more substantial annotated and diversified corpora, which approach the topic from a contrastive viewpoint (e.g. inter-genre or inter-language).
The recommended methodology (studies on annotated corpora, with no restriction on the software tools used) will enable observation and quantitative and qualitative analysis of various phenomena linked to word order and text structuring.
Such approaches will enable large-scale studies of the possible combinations between the various types of initial elements. They can be considered from the following viewpoints: morpho-syntactic (adverb, nominal group, subordinate, etc.), syntactic (complements, circumstances, etc.), semantic (spatio-temporal, enunciative, manner elements, etc.), informational (topic, focus, etc.), or preferably by combining several of these perspectives.
How many initial elements can be found? Of what types? What are the possible combinations?
The objective is to focus on regularities in the way the various syntagms are arranged according to their type, while at the same time relating them to the characteristics of other component parts of the sentence (e.g. In the case of verb/subject inversion, which IE are likely to appear?). Consideration should also be given to the influence of the previous context, by paying attention to the informational and textual structuring of the preceding utterances. For example, it may be possible to observe phenomena of thematic (dis)continuity and the cognitive status of the referents involved (where relevant), either in the initial elements themselves or in the subject of the host sentence.
It may also be possible to throw light on the respective characteristics of utterances with or without initial elements, and to see if they are linked to considerations of genre and language.
The studies submitted should have at least one of the following perspectives:
 

Submissions should be sent to:
 
Deadlines:

(posted 24 May 2013)

The International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation, New York is seeking scholarly papers/articles for the maiden edition of its journal, Living Together.

The Journal of Living Together is a multi-disciplinary, scholarly journal publishing peer-reviewed articles within the fields of ethnic conflict, religious/faith-based conflict, and their methods of resolution, with emphasis on mediation and interfaith dialogue.
Living Together is published by the International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation, New York and is a forum for scholarly reflection and dialogue regarding the most important emerging issues in the fields of ethnic and religious conflicts and their resolution.
A multi-disciplinary research journal, Living Together focuses on a theoretical and practical understanding of ethno-religious conflicts and their methods of resolution with emphasis on mediation and interfaith dialogue. The journal will publish articles that discuss or analyze ethnic and religious/faith-based conflicts or those that present new theories, methods and techniques for ethnic and religious conflict resolution or new empirical research addressing either ethno-religious conflict or resolution, or both.
To achieve this goal, Living Together will publish several types of articles: long articles that make major theoretical and practical contributions, shorter articles that make major empirical contributions including case studies and case series, and brief articles that target rapidly rising trends or new topics in ethno-religious conflicts: their nature, origin, consequence, prevention and resolution. Personal experiences, both good and bad, in dealing with ethno-religious conflicts as well as a pilot and observational studies are also welcome.

The first issue of Living Together will be published in winter 2013 / 2014 with the following theme: The Role of Religion and Ethnicity in Contemporary Conflict, and Related Emerging Tactics, Strategies, Methodologies, of Mediation and Resolution.

For our first issue, we are particularly interested in articles that address any of the following questions:

Scope:
Articles sought are those written within the last decade and shall focus on any of the following locations: Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania.
The Journal of Living Together will publish articles that bridge theory and practice, showing how theories of religious and ethnic conflict resolution are being applied by professionals in the field. These articles shall include practical application in terms of activities that have already shown some success, or would be feasible to test as a pilot project in the near term.

Areas of Interest:
To be considered for the Journal of Living Together, papers/articles must focus on any of the following fields or related areas: ethnic conflict; religious/faith-based conflict; community conflict; theories of ethnic and faith-based conflicts; ethnic relations and affiliations; religious relations and affiliations; multiculturalism; civil-military relations in ethnically divided societies; role of political parties in ethno-religious conflict; the military and ethno-religious conflict; ethnic and religious organizations/associations and the militarization of ethnic and religious conflicts; role of ethnic group representatives, community and religious leaders in ethno-religious conflict; causes, nature, effects/impact/consequences of ethno-religious conflict; inter-generational pilots / models for ethno-religious conflict resolution; strategies or techniques for reducing ethnic and religious conflicts; the United Nations’ response to ethnic and religious conflicts; interfaith dialogue; conflict monitoring, prediction, prevention, analysis, mediation and other forms of conflict resolution applicable to ethno-religious conflict; case studies; personal or group stories; reports, narratives/stories or experiences of conflict resolution practitioners; role of music, sports, education, media, arts, and celebrities in fostering a culture of peace among ethnic and religious groups;  etc.

We hope you will consider writing a paper or submitting an already written research manuscript for publication in Living Together. It is a great way to promote a culture of peace and mutual understanding. It is also an opportunity to gain exposure for you, your organization, institution, association, or society.
The Journal of Living Together will be included in the most comprehensive and widely used databases of journals in the fields of social sciences and peace studies, and shall also be distributed by Ingram Content Group Inc., the world's largest and most trusted distributor of physical and digital content, and other internationally acclaimed journal distributors. The published articles will be available to a global audience: libraries, governments, policy makers, media, universities and colleges, organizations, associations, institutions and millions of potential individual readers.

Guidelines for Submission:

Selection Process:
All papers/articles will be carefully reviewed by a blind Peer Review/Editorial Committee made up of renowned scholars, specialists and practitioners in the fields of ethno-religious conflict and conflict resolution. Each author shall then be notified by email about the outcome of the review process.

Copyright:
The International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation (ICERM) retains the copyright of articles published in the Journal of Living Together. However, authors may use their article elsewhere after publication provided that proper acknowledgement is made, and that the ICERM is notified.

For more information about the Journal of Living Together, please visit the Living Together homepage:

(posted 1 April 2013)

The topic of the 2014 issue is based on the premise that all ideologies are gendered matters. All discourses have ideological functions of enacting and perpetuating power asymmetries and hierarchical relations; all discourses including those on women and by women can be instrumentalized by current political projects. The aim of this thematic issue  of International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal is to examine the relationship between women and different ideologies through the analysis of representations of women in different discourses – women’s discourses and discourses about women. 
Proposals may include, but are not limited to the following topics:

The editors will particularly pay attention to papers highlighting shifting ideologies of gender, sexuality, race and class as intersecting dynamic social categories imbedded in various public and academic discourses.  We welcome research papers which seek through intersectional framework to understand the interaction and interconnection among  these concepts  and the ways in which they inform and influence one another. How do these interactions promote our understanding of gender, individual and collective identity and  formations of community. How do they impact on ideological and political position of women in contemporary cultures and societies?
The study of gender is an interdisciplinary field intertwined with feminism, queer studies, sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies (to name just a few  relevant research areas). Consequently our thematic issue will approach feminist problems from an interdisciplinary standpoint that  intends to bring together researchers form a variety of backgrounds. Papers may include various readings of gender and ideology across a range of disciplines and fields, and we invite contributions form both humanities and social sciences.
Abstracts of no more than 300 hundred words in word format should be submitted  by 30 September 2013 at the following mailing address: penier@uni.lodz.pl. Approved applicants will be notified by 1 November 2013. Final papers should be sent by 31 January 2014.

To find out more about the journal please see one of the following links:

(posted 1 April 2013)

E-rea (Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone) is seeking papers for a special volume to appear in the autumn of 2014.

Lacanian analysis of literature and the arts has not been in vogue in France for some time now. Following the publication of Écrits in 1966, there was a period of analytic fascination with the imaginary capture of the mirror phase and its intersection with the structures of the symbolic in both literary and film studies. Since the 1980s, academic engagement with Lacanian theory in the cultural field has been in a slump, and this for several reasons: the reputed difficulty of Lacan’s style as apprehended through Ecrits, the opposition of numerous feminist critics, and the general decline of theory in the field of literary studies.

Today, in light of the growing force of scientistic conceptions of the human subject (at the level of intelligence, behaviour, reproduction, the limits of the body, mortality), Lacanian theory finds renewed relevance in its unwavering postulate of the subject as singular, unique and incalculable, insusceptible to scientific conclusiveness. It is the Lacanian real, generally underexamined amongst first wave Lacanians, which gives weight to this proposition insofar as the real is the point at which all systems fail, where the signifier encounters its impasse, and also, the beyond of this point; both what has not encountered signifying discourse and the structural impossibility of the signifier to produce an 'all' of meaning. Something always escapes the signifier. This missing 'something', the objet a in the Lacanian myth of the origins of subjectivity, takes us beyond the split of structuralism, beyond the subject of the signifier; the Lacanian 'speakingbeing' is foundationally dislocated by a mode of jouissance (civilised by lalangue, the pre-signifying letter of language) that entails "a disruption of self-identity" (Copjec, Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation, 2002). It is in this sense, according to Colette Soler (Lacan, l’inconscient réinventé, 2009), that Lacan affirms "The Real is the mystery of the speaking body".

It is primarily due to the influence of Slavoj Zizek (Enjoy Your Symptom: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, 1992) and his analyses of film and literature, that Lacanian theory within Anglophone studies has been brought back into the domain of the speakable, the thinkable, and perhaps even the desirable, revalorizing its potential for clarification of the ways in which subjectivity can be understood structurally (through language) but also as the site where the absolute singularity of the human subject meets its historical context: "The contribution of Lacan for our present time is therefore doubly important: on the one hand, it allows us to acquire a clear structural understanding of the [economic] crisis as a crisis of the symbolic; on the other hand, it reaffirms the irreducibility of the desiring subject as such" (Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan: Passé Présent - Dialogue, 2012). It is this insistence on the radical singularity of each human subject, intrinsic to Lacanian theory that makes of it a means of thinking against the determinist discourses of our times.

This is true not only for the subject of capitalist discourse but also for the question of sexual difference. The debate on the implications of sexual difference has become, in the contemporary period, enmired in a binary struggle between sex and gender (one might say 'Huston vs. Butler'). Lacan's theory of sexuation, by contrast, consists in an attempt to rethink sexual difference from a non-binary perspective. Other concepts also move critical issues beyond their current point of articulation:  lalangue, the pre-symbolic letter that marks the subject in its earliest being undercuts the autonomy of the imaginary-symbolic axis of the subject. If the symptom marks the subject's "point of exception to the established form of social bond and is connected to the jouissance of the body" (Lissy Canellopoulos, "The Bodily Event, Jouissance and the (Post)Modern Subject," 2010), the sinthome designates the subject's singular way of knotting together the registers of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, and on occasion, making up for the absence of the Name-of-the-Father (rejoining the second of Badiou's concerns). Such are some of the relatively unexplored dimensions of Lacanian theory which might illuminate our readings of classic and contemporary culture and its objects.

In addition to the work of Slavoj Zizek, notable interventions in the field of cultural analysis include Ellie Ragland's "Eyes Wide Shut, The Woman Not Seen" (European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2005); Juliet Flower MacCannell's reading of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale in "Things to Come: a Hysteric’s Guide to the Future Female Subject" (Supposing the Subject, 1994), or the work of Joan Copjec.

As the expression of a desire to give renewed attention to this critical orientation and to revitalize its debates and uses for contemporary analysis of culture, E-rea is seeking articles which analyze literary, filmic, or other artistic productions from the English-speaking world from a Lacanian perspective. If Encore, as the inaugural text of the period of the 'later Lacan' may serve as a point of reference, analyses which mobilize such key concepts as sexuation, lalangue, other jouissance, ethics, the sinthome, or, that elusive concept - love - will be welcome. Addressing a wide audience of Anglophone scholars and students, concepts should be clarified to illuminate their use in the analyses.

Papers may be written in English or in French.
Proposals should be sent to Jennifer Murray <jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr>.
Deadlines:
E-rea's contributor guidelines may be consulted at: http://erea.revues.org/2153

(posted 16 April 2013)

Proposals are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies exploring intersections between the Gothic and medical humanities.
 
Gothic studies has long grappled with suffering bodies, and the fragility of human flesh in the grip of medical and legal discourse continues to be manifest in chilling literature and film. The direction of influence goes both ways: Gothic literary elements have arguably influenced medical writing, such as the nineteenth-century clinical case study. In this second decade of the twenty-first century, it seems apt to freshly examine intersections between the two fields.
The closing years of the twentieth century saw the emergence of medical humanities, an interdisciplinary blend of humanities and social science approaches under the dual goals of using arts to enhance medical education and interrogating medical practice and discourse. Analysis of period medical discourse, legal categories and medical technologies can enrich literary criticism in richly contextualising fictional works within medical practices. Such criticism can be seen as extending the drive towards historicised and localised criticism that has characterised much in Gothic studies in recent decades.
Our field offers textual strategies for analysing the processes by which medical discourse, medical processes and globalised biotechnological networks can, at times, do violence to human bodies and minds -- both of patient and practitioner. Cultural studies of medicine analyse and unmask this violence. This special issue will explore Gothic representations of the way medical practice controls, classifies and torments the body in the service of healing.
 
Essays could address any of the following in any period, eighteenth-century to the present:
To date the links between Gothic and psychiatric medical discourse have been the most thoroughly explored, so preference will be given to articles exploring other, non-psychiatric medical contexts in the interests of opening up new connections.
 
Please email 500-word abstract and curriculum vitae to Dr Sara Wasson, s.wasson@napier.ac.uk. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2013.
 
The official journal of the International Gothic Studies Association considers the field of Gothic studies from the eighteenth century to the present day. The aim of Gothic Studies is not merely to open a forum for dialogue and cultural criticism, but to provide a specialist journal for scholars working in a field which is today taught or researched in almost all academic establishments. Gothic Studies invites contributions from scholars working within any period of the Gothic; interdisciplinary scholarship is especially welcome, as are readings in the media and beyond the written word.
 
For more information on Gothic Studies, including submission guidelines and subscription recommendations, please see the journals website:
 
To view Gothic Studies online, see here:
 
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(posted 18 May 2013)

Journal Culture, Language and Representation, ISSN: 1697-7750, seeks contributions for its next volume to appear May 2014.

"Given that representation conditions our responses and interpretations of events, at present, the attempts to control the symbolic space of discourses about the crisis is dominated by the struggle between the institutional and financial powers, and a number of counter-discourses that dispute such a space. The former appeal to regain their hegemonic place and lost credibility. The latter emerge from social movements like Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, 15-M, etc., that contest those narratives with grassroots intervention. In such a light, the representations of the crisis can be regarded as the ground where the ethical discourses that have become urgent and relevant are being articulated at the social symbolic level

Contributions are welcome that tackle the representation of the global economic crisis from a cultural perspective in the Arts, film, literature, journalism, as well as the linguistic, socio-economic, political, community, or other, dimensions.
Areas of interest would include, but are not limited to:

 Contributions of approx. 7000 words should be sent to the Editors:

- either as an attachment to Jose R. Prado <prado@ang.uji.es>.
- or through the OJS platform in which the journal is included.

Deadline for submissions: 30 October, 2013.

http://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/clr

(posted 24 April 2013)

Guest Editors: Ingo Berensmeyer and Andrew Hadfield

Studies of early modern English literature and culture have rarely explored discourses and practices of lying and deception. This issue will therefore seek new ways of discussing the complex relationship between truth and falsehood, aiming to rethink the social, cultural and epistemological underpinnings of mendacity in early modern England (c. 1500-1750). While truth-telling is often assumed to be a universal paradigm (as attested by the Gricean maxim of quality), the codes of truth and lying are subject to historical change. What might appear to be an egregious falsehood at a particular time might seem relatively benign at another. In early modernity, what were the cultural norms of truthfulness and lying, and on what basis were they constructed? What were the consequences when someone did not share the assumed common project of truth-telling and deliberately tried to avoid telling what they knew to be the truth, or to claim as true what they knew to be false? What were the pragmatic (legal, political, social or gender-based) strictures on mendacious discourse, and which media, art forms or genres were exempt from these strictures?

Contributions may explore but are not restricted to topics such as the following:

Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5,000-6,000 words, as well as all inquries regarding this issue, should be sent to both the guest editors:

Please note that the deadline for proposals is 31 October 2013, with delivery of completed essays by 31 March 2014.
Volume 19 will appear in 2015.

(posted 25 February 2013)

Guest Editors: Virginia Richter (Bern) and Pieter Vermeulen (Stockholm)

The notion of "the creature(ly)" has historically played a decisive but under investigated role in negotiating the flexible borders between the supernatural and human and animal life. This issues proposes to focus on the literary, cultural, and material histories of the creature(ly). It wants to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the contested zone where the natural and the supernatural meet in the modern age; it also aims to develop the notion of the creature(ly) as a powerful tool for future analyses of the affects, affinities, and anxieties that have marked this zone since the advent of modernity, and especially since Darwin.

Contributions can explore, but are not restricted to:
• how the notion of the creature(ly) has shaped and reflected changing gender relations and legal institutions of personhood, and has cut across the binary human/animal.
• the affinities between the notion of the creature(ly) and the diachronically related term "creativity," which places the notion at the heart of modern conceptions of authorship and anxieties about artificial creation.
• the religious resonances in the notion of the creature(ly); its relation to religious notions of Creation and the Creator and political theological approaches.
• postcolonial and gender dimensions of the ways in which the notion of the creature(ly), like that of the monstrous, has historically served to police the borders of Western subjectivity.
• the relations between animal, human, and supernatural life in popular culture and children’s literature.
• the ways in which these relations have been shaped (and often triggered) by scientific discourses and practices, and have been sedimented in a broad range of material practices (like zoos).

Detailed proposals (500-1000 words) for articles of c. 5000-6000 words, as well as enquiries about this issue, can be sent to the guest editors:

Please note that the deadline for proposals is 31 October 2013, with delivery of completed essays by 31 March 2014.
Volume 19 will appear in 2015.

(posted 25 February 2013)

Guest Editors:  GJV Prasad,  Stephanos Stephanides 

Bapsi Sidhwa, author of the South Asian partition classic Ice-Candy Man aka Cracking India, has famously said 'memory demands poetic license'. This issue invites contributions that work to develop a 'poetics' of partition by considering the licentia poetica of the diverse literary and cultural productions relating to the partitions of South Asia and Cyprus.  Both South Asia and Cyprus experienced partitions and exchanges of populations in their transitions from British colonialism to post-colonial nation-states, yet have seldom been studied in counterpoint in the same context.      

The issue thus queries: how is cultural memory formed in the afterlife of a partition, and what is the role of post-memory and prosthetic memory? How do people remember the world prior to partition, and how does this process shape possibilities for the future? What is the relationship between nation-state forms of memory, diasporic imaginaries, and cultural and personal memory for the victims of partition? What license has been taken and to what effect to re-imagine ways of being in the world in film, fiction, poetry, memoir, and  testimony and how do these unsettle ideas and feelings of home/land, nation and community, or other ways of belonging? 

Contributions may focus on either of the regions; transregional and comparative perspectives are also welcome. Please note that the deadline for proposals for all issues of this volume is 31 October 2013, with delivery of completed essays by 31 March 2014. Volume 19 will appear in 2015.

Detailed proposals (500-1,000 words) for articles of c. 5,000-6,000 words, as well as all inquiries regarding this issue, should be sent to both guest editors:
• GJV Prasad <gjvprasad@yahoo.com>
•  andStephanos Stephanides <steve@ucy.ac.cy>

Please note that the deadline for proposals is 31 October 2013, with delivery of completed essays by 31 March 2014.
Volume 19 will appear in 2015.

(posted 25 February 2013)

Guest Edited by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández <cristina.gamez@uco.es>

Fiction narratives, films, documentaries and TV series dealing with Muslim issues have increased notably since the events of 9/11, most of them with reference to Islamist terrorism. Whether triggered by 9/11 attacks or not, Islamic characters in literature and film often embody the problematic role of the 'Other' and are usually forced into a stereotype designed from a Western biased perspective as an epitome of fundamentalism and hatred versus the civilization and modernity represented by white, wealthy westerners. Narratives like Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic (1994) and its 1997 film version, Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2004) and its 2007 film version, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and its 2011 film version, John Updike's Terrorist (2006), Kiran Nagarkar's God Little Soldier (2006), Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007), Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2008) and its 2012 film version, Tabish Khair's How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2012), or Mohammad Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2012) are only some examples of a wider rich literary exploration.
Along with literature, films, documentaries and TV series as Kurbaan (2009), My Name is Khan (2010), Saving Face (2004), Homeland (2011) or Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007), among many others, also attempt to offer (or fail to do so) an insight about the kaleidoscopic and multifold nature of Muslim identity. Western constructions are also contested and challenged by intellectuals, academicians and scholars in what has come to be one of the defining 21st century issues: Fred Halliday's 'Islamophobia Reconsidered' (1999), Noam Chomsky's The Culture of Terrorism (1999), Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies' Why Do People Hate America? (2002), John E. Richardson's (Mis)Representing Islam: The Racism and Rhetoric of British Broadsheet Newspapers (2004), Samir Kassir's Being Arab (2006), Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (2007), or Tabish Khair's Muslim Modernities (2008) display, inter alia, multifarious approaches to this issue.

The Journal of Contemporary Literature (Allahabad, India) seeks contributions for its next issue (December 2013) that will expand our current understanding of the complex nature of Muslim identities within the international geopolitical and sociological situation through a variety of critical stances. Prompting scholars to engage with connections between history, economics, literature, society, religion, etc., this journal invites articles devoted to the analysis of how Muslim identities are shaped, dealt with, investigated and problematized both in narratives and the screen by fostering multifaceted approaches. Prospective themes are:

Full papers (4000-7000 words) must conform to the latest MLA style. Articles must be sent as attachments to <cristina.gamez@uco.es> by 15th November 2013.

(posted 6 March 2013)

Gothic Studies is seeking to publish a collection of articles examining the connections between Surrealism and the Gothic. Possible topics of discussion could include (but are not limited to):
 
Please send a 500-word abstract and curriculum vitae to: Professor Avril Horner, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston KT1 2EE, United Kingdom. Email: <a.horner@kingston.ac.uk>.
 Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2013.
 
The official journal of the International Gothic Studies Association considers the field of Gothic studies from the eighteenth century to the present day. The aim of Gothic Studies is not merely to open a forum for dialogue and cultural criticism, but to provide a specialist journal for scholars working in a field which is today taught or researched in almost all academic establishments. Gothic Studies invites contributions from scholars working within any period of the Gothic; interdisciplinary scholarship is especially welcome, as are readings in the media and beyond the written word.
For more information on Gothic Studies, including submission guidelines and subscription recommendations, please see the journals website:
 To view Gothic Studies online, see here: http://manchester.metapress.com/content/1362-7937 
 To sign up to alerts for Gothic Studies, see here: https://manchester.metapress.com/content/122707/toc-alert

(posted 15 May 2013)

(posted 16 February 2012)

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.

(posted 10 January 2008, updated 3 November 2010)

Submissions are continuously accepted.

(posted 10 February 2011)