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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Beginnings of Central American Narrative: A Disregarded Tradition

Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos
Publishes at the University of California, Davis

With the notable exceptions of Rubén Darío and Miguel Ángel Asturias, Central American literature has only emerged in academic discourse, particularly within the academy of the United States, in roughly the past decade. In the aftermath of the civil
wars of the northern Central American nations, considerable attention has been paid to the works of contemporary writers of narrative fiction and testimonios, while writers from the early 20th century and the second half of the 19th century have suffered
from a near-absolute occlusion, even despite the presence of some of Latin America’s first novelists, such as Guatemalans José Milla and Enrique Gómez Carrillo (writing as early as the 1860s). With the intention of opening a discourse on the birth of nar-
rative fiction in Central America, the 9th volume of Brújula will be dedicated to studies concerning the development of novels, short stories and other forms of narrative fiction from the 1860s until the 1920s in the Central American isthmus.

Articles to be submitted for this volume might include, but are not limited to the following:
• Interdisciplinary studies linking narrative production to musical works or the graphic arts
• The outgrowth of narrative fiction from genres such as journalism and essay writing
• Historical studies concerning “lost” works and authors
• European influence on authors and traditions on early Central American writers such as Gómez Carrillo, Milla or
Manuel Argüello Mora, among others.
• The development of the traditions of modernismo and vanguardismo within the isthmus
• Comparatist studies about the beginnings of Central American narraite.
• The emergence of an infrastructure within Central America to support the growth and dispersion of narrative works
• The significance of European and North American economic investment for early writers and the appraisal of such
foreign involvement within the works of these same authors
• Central American women’s narrative production of this period
• Any other related studies focused on the means by which narrative fiction developed from the 1860s until the 1910s
and 20s in Central America

SUBMISSIONS:
Please submit your essay with a cover letter that includes a brief (50-75 words) professional statement (with your name, academic
affiliation, and standing [graduate student, doctoral candidate, assistant professor], institution, research interests, and/or a few
relevant publications), the title of your paper, and a 100-word abstract.
- Essays must be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
- Papers are limited to 15-20 pages, double-spaced, including endnotes and bibliography.
- Send material via e-mail to: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu. Use Microsoft Word 95 or higher.
- Format the article following the conventions of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.
- Tables, diagrams, maps, photos, and artwork may be included by arrangement with editors.
- Permissions to reproduce such materials will be the author’s responsibility.
- Brújula only accepts original contributions. Translations of articles or articles already published will not be accepted.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
Please submit materials to submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu
by January 8, 2010