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Call For Papers

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies is soliciting contributions for 400 original entries (“headwords”) on a wide range of topics relating to colonial/ postcolonial dynamics. Our coverage is global and ranges historically from cultures of contact (1492) through European colonization and imperialism to the present, with emphasis on movements of decolonization post WWII. With regional editors on three continents we ensure a wide geographical representation.

Our focus is largely cultural and literary within the broad social and economic reaches of imperial processes. Headwords should be designed for the general reader and should cover the most representative figures, events, and concepts in a region, and should incorporate the most recent scholarly developments. We welcome contributions that address culture from a materialist perspective.

Sample entries begin with:

Aboriginal Literature
Achebe, Chinua
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Asbar)
African American Culture and Society
African American Literature, Criticism, and Theory

And end with:

Wicomb, Zoe
Wirendu, Kwasi
Women in Literature
Women’s Movements
Wynter, Sylvia
Young, Robert J. C.
Youssef, Saadi

Typical entry sizes: Individual authors, 1000 words; Concepts and Events, 3000 words; Regional overviews, 5000 words.

Please see our list of headwords and choose one or more. Deadline for initial drafts is 1 September 2012. Revised drafts will be due 1 November 2012.

Contributors receive free access to the online version of the published Encyclopedia.

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