[Discussion] CFP: SOAS Literary Review (ongoing; e-journal)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: SOAS Literary Review <soas.lit@soas.ac.uk>

Subject: CFP: SOAS Literary Review (ongoing; e-journal)

Call for Submissions

SOAS Literary Review (http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/home.html) is a refereed
online journal edited and produced by research students at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. The journal 
seeks to
provide an international forum for research students working on humanities
topics and focusing on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Papers on 
literature,
visual and performing arts, film and media are welcome. There are also three
themed issues planned for 2005-2006. These themes, detailed below, are 
meant to
act as rough guidelines for anyone wishing to submit a paper. The Editors
encourage a broad interpretation of the themes and research questions, 
as well
as an interdisciplinary approach to them.


Sexuality

How is sexuality represented in literature? How do different literary 
traditions
and social contexts affect representations of sexuality? For example, 
what can
the discussion of Asian and African literatures add to the understanding of
sexuality and its representation?

How appropriate is it to use theoretical approaches to sexuality and gender
developed in the Western academy to discuss non-Western literatures? Is 
the very
concept of sexual identity too culturally specific to be applicable to 
anything
other than modern Western cultural production?

How do representations of sexuality interact with systems of censorship and
expectations of propriety in different cultures?

How is the literary representation of sexuality affected by genre? To what
extent do non-literary genres, such as legal, psychiatric, medical or 
religious
discourses determine the language in which sexuality is represented in both
literature and literary criticism?


Life-Writing

How is the traditional, Western genre of autobiography being challenged (or
affirmed) by recent developments in life-writing?

Is there a specific genre of postcolonial life-writing? What are its 
particular
features and how does it intersect with other genres of life-writing?

What is the relationship between fiction and life-writing? How is the 
borderline
between the two negotiated in recent life-writing?How are the relations and
representations of ethnicity and gender evolving in life-writing?


The Modern, the Postmodern and the Postcolonial

What are the possible non-Eurocentric conceptualisations of modernism?

Does modernism's elevation of the aesthetic necessarily obfuscate the 
material
conditions of cultural production?

How do non-western modernisms negotiate the tension between their local 
contexts
and the homogenising impulses of advanced capitalism?

What is the value (if any) of postmodernism's insistence on plurality,
heterogeneity and difference, for postcolonial criticism?

Is literary postmodernism preoccupied with textuality and verbal 
surfaces at the
expense of referential reality? If so, how does postmodern writing from 
Asia and
Africa manage to engage with history?

Does postcolonial literature resist, or does it reproduce, the logic and
features of the global literary marketplace?


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Please consult the notes for contributors on the Review website
http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/contributors.htm



The Editors
SOAS Literary Review
c/o AHRB Centre for Asian & African Literatures,
SOAS, Thornhaugh Street,
London WC1H 0XG

http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/home.html

soas.lit@soas.ac.uk


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