[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Remaking Reality: Eroding the Palimpsest (3/1/07; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

FACS Literary Journal
Florida Atlantic University

CALL FOR PAPERS

Remaking reality:  Eroding the Palimpsest

In the context of modern poetics, Charles Baudelaire seizes upon the
complexity of palimpsest as critical paradigm not simply for the human
brain as physical structure, but also for the referential status of
poetry itself: "What is the human brain, if not an immense and natural
palimpsest?" he asks. "My brain is a palimpsest, and yours too, reader.

Innumerable layers of ideas, images, and sentiments fall upon your
brain, as softly as light. It seems that each [new layer] buries the
previous one. But no layer has perished." Paradis artificiels
[Artificial Paradises]

Baudelaire draws the metaphor of palimpsest from specific material
conditions present in the ancient and medieval worlds in which valuable
parchments were often scraped down to enable new text to be written over
the old. This overlaying technique of palimpsest masked the original
texts but never truly effaced them, and modern technology is now capable
of exposing these earlier layers of text. Similarly, contemporary
theory, academic discourses, and new media forms find themselves
imposing modern directions over earlier ones, overwriting the
"original." Past models appear effaced while simultaneously serving as
the foundation for innovative thought.

The editors of the interdisciplinary journal Florida Atlantic
Comparative Studies invite submissions on any aspect of this topic for
its Volume #10. The deadline is March 1, 2007. FACS is an
interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for comparative study in the
arts, humanities, language, culture and social sciences. Submissions in
English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish are welcome. Graphic
submissions are also welcome.

Possible topics on the exploration of notions of palimpsest include, but
are not limited to, the following:
   a.. Electronic communication
   b.. Memory and disease
   c.. Ecology
   d.. Identity (gender, race, religion, class)
   e.. History
   f.. Revisiting genres
   g.. Media art
   h.. Critical theory
   i.. Displacing colonial agency
   j.. Transglobal economy
   k.. Translation studies


Papers should be no more than 25 pages or approximately 7,000 words, and
should follow the most recent MLA guidelines. A separate title page
should include the author's name and address. The author's name should
not appear on the manuscript pages to allow for blind review.=20

Send two hard copies and a CD of the manuscript to:

FACS Editor
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
P.O. Box 3091
Boca Raton, FL 33341-0991
USA

E-mail submissions should be sent to facs_at_fau.edu. All electronic
versions should be submitted in Microsoft Word.




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