East-West: Diasporic Writings of Asia
Reiko Tachibana
CLS, in conjunction with the College of International Relations of Nihon University, continues its long tradition of East-West comparison with a special issue topic: articles of the issue explore an Asian Diaspora that challenges and resists political, ideological, cultural, and national boundaries. We invite manuscripts that examine the significance of Asian diasporic literature (including film and art) and of transnational writers on the global map.
Al-Andalus and Its Legacies
Guest Editors: Esperanza Alfonso & Ross Brann
In the region of Iberia that was under Islamic control from the
eighth to the thirteenth century, Hebrew and Romance literatures burgeoned
alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture invoked in the
name al-Andalus. We
seek papers that explore literary interactions and influences between
cultures and languages in the period, papers that reveal the legacy of
this culture for later literary production, or those that critique later
representations of al-Andalus
in literary or historical texts.
Submissions due by 31 May 2007
Issue to appear Spring 2008
Literary Forms and Human
Rights
Guest Editors: Sophia A. McClennen & Joseph R.
Slaughter
The editors seek essays that offer comparative perspectives on how
human rights and literary forms are interrelated. Recent literary
criticism has begun to underscore some of the historical, formal, and
ideological intersections of human rights and the humanities. We seek
innovative essays that explore the relationships between forms of
storytelling, literary representation, cultural narratives, and human
rights (understood as law, as discourse, and/or as practice).
Submissions due by 15 February 2008
Issue to appear Fall 2008
Literature and Theories of Africa
Guest Editors:
Pius Adesanmi & Thomas Hale
The editors seek essays that analyze African literary or filmic works from
more than one linguistic/cultural tradition, or that deal with African
literary and cultural theories in a comparative perspective. Submissions
may explore any of the following (not necessarily exhaustive) list of
issues in African(ist) literary and cultural theorizing: orality and the
challenge of modernity; the question of language(s); literature/film and
the crisis of postcolonial criticism; women's writing/filmmaking and
feminist theory; vernacular theory.
Submissions due by 30 June 2008
Issue to appear Spring 2009
We encourage submissions that respond to these questions with comparative analyses of study examples drawn from any period, language, and culture. Sophisticated theoretical analyses with broad application will also be considered.
All manuscripts and inquiries should be submitted to the CLS editorial address, and authors should indicate the special issue for which they would like to be considered.
Last updated: 12
July 2007 by Michelle Toumayants