[UPDATE] Wreck Park Journal Deadline for Summer Issue Approaching (May 1)

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Wreck Park Journal

Wreck Park is a double-blind, peer reviewed publication run out of Binghamton, New York. The journal publishes prose, poetry, criticism, and interviews, and is particularly interested in conceptual frameworks and developments that set to disrupt the canonical and standardized discourses of the contemporary academic and literary landscapes. The journal welcomes authors, poets, researchers, and thinkers whose work reflects an interrogation of engendered norms and traditions within societies, cultures, intellectual circles, and beyond.

Wreck Park is inviting works of criticism, and – in keeping with an unbound sensibility – there is no preferred subject, location, time period, or theme for submission. Rather, we are looking for works that are invested – that is, interested – in the ongoing deconstruction and reformulation of literary, critical-theoretical, and cultural studies. We seek works that explore the intersections between texts, critics, and modes of inquiry through their political, cultural, and ideological impacts; we look for scholars who politicize the aesthetic and aestheticize the political; and we favor those essays which are uncompromising in challenging margins and opening new frontiers in scholarship.

Submissions should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words and formatted to conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

The issue is set to be published electronically Summer 2015. Submission deadline to be considered for the summer issue is May 1.

If interested, please send your article to the editor at wreckpark.criticism@gmail.com

For more information, or to see the first issue featuring an interview with William V. Spanos on terra nullius and "bare life", the poetry of Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, an interview with punk icon and poet Mike Watt, and other criticism, prose, and poetry visit the journal's official website at www.wreckparkjournal.com.

Best,

M. Heiligenthal
Criticism Editor
Wreck Park Journal

Possible approaches, fields, and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Transnational Americanist Studies
• Political-Economic Theory
• Inter/trans/a- disciplinary Approaches
• Post-structuralism and Political Criticism
• Post-Colonialism and Subaltern Studies
• Literary Criticism and Film Studies
• Critical Race Theory
• Cultural Studies
• Queer Theory and Gender Studies