CFP: Hollywood Motherhood (collection)

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CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS: CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual

CFP: The Storytelling Genius of Elie Weisel (collection)

CFP: The Undiscovered Country: Science fiction in culture and the canon

There have been several milestones met and passed since Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Grandfather of science fiction, introduced us to extra terrestrial life on Mars. Through science fiction we have engaged our minds and souls in the modern manifestation of philosophy and often crossed the line into technical prophecy.

CFP: Variations: InSights (issue 12, 2004)

=93Thinking is more interesting than knowing but less fascinating than=20=

seeing.=94
J.W. Goethe

=93And the eyes of the two of them were opened, and they knew that they=20=

were naked=94 (Genesis 3.7). Seeing and knowing have always been very=20
closely related. Throughout the history of philosophy =96 from Plato to=20=

Descartes and Sloterdijk =96 the eye has occupied a prominent position =
in=20
philosophical discussions, especially as far as epistemological=20
questions are concerned. A look into both scientific and everyday=20
language reveals that a number of visual metaphors serve the purpose of=20=

CALL FOR PAPERS: POSTCOLONIAL REVISIONS OF EARLY MODERN HISTORIES. (Deadline
3/1/04; Book Collection)
Unpublished essays that engage the Postcolonial treatment of Early Modern
texts and contexts from the perspective of contemporary novelists are
invited for a collection entitled Postcolonial Revisions of Early Modern
Histories. The book furthers a dialogue not only between Postcolonial and
Early Modern Studies from the relatively neglected vantage point of the
Postcolonial fiction writer, but also seeks to revise Postcolonial Studies
by extending its attention to regions and literatures that are only
beginning to be included in its corpus. As such then, contributions that

CALL FOR PAPERS: POSTCOLONIAL REVISIONS OF EARLY MODERN HISTORIES. (Deadline
3/1/04; Book Collection)
Unpublished essays that engage the Postcolonial treatment of Early Modern
texts and contexts from the perspective of contemporary novelists are
invited for a collection entitled Postcolonial Revisions of Early Modern
Histories. The book furthers a dialogue not only between Postcolonial and
Early Modern Studies from the relatively neglected vantage point of the
Postcolonial fiction writer, but also seeks to revise Postcolonial Studies
by extending its attention to regions and literatures that are only
beginning to be included in its corpus. As such then, contributions that

CFP: White Male Embodiment (04/01/04; Collection)

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We are gathering articles for a proposed collection on the white male
body as text and representation.

Recently, a number of scholars have responded to the lack of scholarship =
pertaining to manhood and the male body, and have paid increasing =
attention to the role and status of white men. This recent work suggests =
that embodying white men usefully dismantles the myth of a monolithic =
disembodied privileged white manhood. Not surprisingly, this still =
relatively new focus on the white male body and white male difference =
has provided a beginning rather than an end and still leaves a =
significant gap.

Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon

Deadline extended to May 15, 2004

Abstracts of 500 words or essays of around 9,000 words are being solicited
for Hungry Words, an anthology which will examine representations of hunge=
r
or famine in the works of canonical Irish authors. The terms =B3famine=B2 and
=B3canonical=B2 are, of course, loaded ones in Irish studies, and it is my
particular desire to collect essays which question the various
manifestations of these terms in recent literary scholarship.

Please circulate!!!!

the Call for papers on a collection on Edward Said's work, tentatively
titled: Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said.

Call for Papers

"I urge everyone to join in
and not leave the field of values,
definitions, and cultures uncontested."

  From the final essay of Edward Said.

Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon

Deadline extended to May 15, 2004

Abstracts of 500 words or essays of around 9,000 words are being solicited
for Hungry Words, an anthology which will examine representations of hunge=
r
or famine in the works of canonical Irish authors. The terms =B3famine=B2 and
=B3canonical=B2 are, of course, loaded ones in Irish studies, and it is my
particular desire to collect essays which question the various
manifestations of these terms in recent literary scholarship.

Please circulate!!!!

the Call for papers on a collection on Edward Said's work, tentatively
titled: Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said.

Call for Papers

"I urge everyone to join in
and not leave the field of values,
definitions, and cultures uncontested."

  From the final essay of Edward Said.

Image [&] Narrative (www.imageandnarrative.be), a peer reviewed e-journal on=
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visual narratology in the broadest sense, invites essays that respond to Pet=
er=20
Greenaway=E2=80=99s recent Tulse Luper Suitcases: A Personal History of Uran=
ium, a=20
project that manifests itself in the forms of television, film, CDs, an inte=
rnet=20
site (www.tulselupernetwork.com), and as art objects. Submissions can be in=20
either French or English. (They will not be translated but the accompanying=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Ludologica. Videogames d'Autore" is pleased to announce its call for
papers for a book on first-person shooter games that will be published
in Summer 2004.