CFP: Catastrophe and Representation (12/31/05; journal issue)
FACS Literary Journal
Florida Atlantic University Comparative Studies=20
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Call for Papers
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Catastrophe and Representation
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Images of catastrophe increasingly assault us through the media. The =
world is reeling from the effects of war, natural disasters, famine, and =
disease. Violence - natural and unnatural - has become a standard motif =
in contemporary storytelling, cultural documentation and sociopolitical =
reportage. How, then, is such representation captured and =
characterized? What is being said and unsaid, and why? Is catastrophe a =
comparative experience?
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