The United States through the Prism of American and British Popular Music.

"I'm so bored with the USA.
But what can I do?"

The Clash, "I'm so Bored with the USA," The Clash, 1977

Thanks for alerting me to this issue. Here it is:

CFP: Reality Television: Fairy Tale or Feminist Nightmare?
Feminist Media Studies 4(1) Criticism and Commentary Section

Deadline: December 1, 2003
Length: 1,000-1,500 words (5-6 pages typed, double-spaced)

?Big Brother,? ?Survivor,? ?Temptation Island,? ?Joe Millionaire,? ?For
Love or Money,? ?Pop Idol,? ?The Bachelor,? ?Fear Factor,? ?Married by
America,? ?

Please post to your list-serve.
Call for papers:

"Literature and Ethics: This is an open call for submission proposals
focusing on any of the sub-topics of literature and ethics presented
below for a collection to be published in the fall of 2004. The
objective of the proposed study is to reassess the place of ethics in
literary studies and present and differentiate the many different
issues currently being addressed under the broadly conceived rubric of

Literature and Ethics.

Ethics and historical approaches to literature
The ethos of the text
Ethics and the reader
Literary criticism and ethics
Postcolonial studies and ethics
Cultural studies and ethics

For Fall 2004, _divide_, the University of Colorado's Journal of Writing =
and Ideas, will publish an issue titled "Pax Americana."=20

Recent events have led to reappraisals of religion and spirituality.
This creates an opportunity to collect in one volume the different and
differing perspectives and interpretations of what it means to be
religious or spiritual today. Essays intended for an international
audience are therefore solicited for inclusion in a collection
tentatively entitled "Uniqueness and Versatility: Cross-Cultural
Expressions of Spirituality". The book is to bring together innovative
but readable explorations of religious, mythological, cosmological and
theological texts.

Recent events have led to reappraisals of religion and spirituality.
This creates an opportunity to collect in one volume the different and
differing perspectives and interpretations of what it means to be
religious or spiritual today. Essays intended for an international
audience are therefore solicited for inclusion in a collection
tentatively entitled "Uniqueness and Versatility: Cross-Cultural
Expressions of Spirituality". The book is to bring together innovative
but readable explorations of religious, mythological, cosmological and
theological texts.

Crossings, a counterdisciplinary journal based at Binghamton University, is
seeking submissions for their upcoming issue on dwelling.
Deadline for submissions: 11/15/03
To learn more about the journal, please go to:
http://english.binghamton.edu/crossings/
All inquiries: Dr. Andy Martino at nerval_at_msn.com

CFP: Dwelling Places

Call for Papers: THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP
A CRITICAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
Defining the Americas: Media Within/Across Borders

The history of the American continents has long been one of establishing and
crossing borders. From pre-colonial times to the present, people and
cultures define and redefine themselves and their borders, especially in
response to perceived conquest opportunities or threats. As cultural
discourse, media interrogates the construction of identity within and beyond
national or other boundaries.

INTERFACES, a bilingual French/English journal, invites essays for a
series of issues focusing upon the representational role of narrative in
religious traditions, whether in word or image. The issues will be
concerned especially with narrative's irreducible functions and with the
need within traditions for certain basic narratives to be re-told. Essays
may focus upon narratives from any major religious tradition; those that
foster dialogue between traditions-for example, by taking up tales common
to more than one-are especially welcome. The journal's plural title
announces its particular commitment to scholarship that explores
interdisciplinary interfaces.

The Literary London Journal is pleased to announce publication of the =
second edition of the Journal and to invite submissions for the=20
third issue which will be published on 15th March 2004. The deadline for =
submissions to be considered for this issue is 1st February=20
2004. The current issue is now online at http://www.literarylondon.org and =
includes:=20
=20
Articles=20
=20
Nick Bentley, 'Writing 1950s London: Narrative Strategies in Colin =
MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners'
=20
Robert Bond, 'Wide Boys Always Work: Iain Sinclair and the 'London =
Proletarian Novel''
=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

LISA E-Journal is inviting contributions to an issue on « Rewritings ».

Call for Articles (La revue LISA / LISA e-journal)

LISA E-Journal is inviting contributions to an issue on :
Contemporary Art and American Minorities : an Iconography of Identity?

LOUISIANA ENGLISH JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS
WINTER 2003/2004 ISSUE

DUE DATE: OCTOBER 31, 2003

CONTENT TOPICS: