[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Science Fiction and Life Writing: Biography Special Issue (9/5/06; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Change in deadline:


Call for Papers. The Winter 2007 issue of _Biography: An
Interdisciplinary Quarterly_ will be a special issue on the relation
between science fiction and the theory and practice of life writing.
Guest editor John Rieder invites essays on the ways science fiction
explores the recording of lives, including its estrangement and
problematization of the construction of identities, issues of memory and
identity, the integrity or fragmentation of personal identity, the
social construction of personhood, and related topics; or papers that
explore the auto/biographical elements of science fiction, such as the
relation of science fiction to travel writing, captivity narratives,
autobiographical ethnographic accounts, or case histories. These lists
of topics are meant to be suggestive, not exclusive.

In general the special issue will seek to ask how comparison between
biography and science fiction can provoke useful theoretical and
critical questions about both genres, and any work that undertakes this
task is welcome for consideration. Inquiries and submissions may be sent
by email to biograph at hawaii.edu, or to the Center for Biographical
Research, University of Hawa'i at Mänoa, 1800 East-West Road, #325,
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 USA.


New Deadline for receipt of submissions:
September 5, 2006.

Craig Howes
Director, Center for Biographical Research
Editor, _Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly_
Professor of English
1733 Donaghho Road
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
USA

Phone: 808-956-3774     Fax: 808-956-3774
E-mail: craighow at hawaii.edu, or biograph at hawaii.edu

Home Page: www.hawaii.edu/biograph

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