[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Fabricated Heroes and Homefronts (3/15/06; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Fabricated Heroes and Homefronts: Considerations of Technology, Gender and
Myth in Literature and Culture

Edited by Lisa DeTora and Elizabeth Abele

The warmth of the hearth lies at the center of a cultural mythos that 
informs
most views of technology, violence, and adventure. From military might 
designed
to protect the home front to comic book heroes making the world safe for
humanity, those charged with the development and use of advanced 
technologies
are enmeshed in a domestic ethos that serves as the foundation and 
motivation
for heroic (and villainous) actions. Ironically, the domestic sphere in 
these
cultural forms is mutable, impacted and transformed in the face of the
technologies that were designed to preserve it in the first place. We seek
essays that consider these circumstances, and more particularly the
relationships between technology and violence and between 
action/adventure and
home in all genres. Treatments of popular culture and visual media are
especially welcome.

This collection of essays will explore topics interest including but not 
limited
to:
Technology and gender
Comic book heroes and the domestic
Violence, technology, and home in children's literature
Heroic violence inside the home
Representations of violence to retaliate against violators of the home 
or family
The (in)compatbility of home life and action heroism
Domesticating or failing to domesticate the action hero
Military violence and home fronts
Depictions of domestic violence

Please send proposals by March 15th to
lisadetora@hotmail.com
and
abelee@ncc.edu.

Authors will be notified by April 1, with full papers of 5,000-7,000 words
expected by June 30th.



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