Call for papers

scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa wishes to invite
papers on the following topics for its forthcoming issues:

1. The end of theory?

The editors invite contributions which address the seeming exhaustion with
successive waves of theory to legitimate and strengthen the practices of
literary and cultural criticism. We are more than happy here to consider
contemporary contexts other than southern Africa.

2. The semiotics of sports narratives

In the wake of the Hansie Cronje scandal, which seems to have affected
South Africans and cricket loyalists elsewhere with as much force as a
thousand novels, the editors invite reflections on the imaginative
investment in national sport. What charge is carried by the semiotic
enactment of heroic sporting endeavour under the sign of national colours?
What does sport mean? Should cultural scholars take the aesthetics, and
the ethics, of sport more seriously?

3. Testimonies of institutional transition

Institutional contexts, particularly in southern Africa, are changing the
very nature of academic disciplines. Momentous changes are occurring at
South African universities, involving a great deal of trauma, racial
conflict, philosophical and pedagogical debate. Yet there is relatively
little reflective writing on these dramas of transition. The editors
invite 'raw' testimony as well as more 'academic' accounts of the stories
behind the curriculum and promotional battles.

scrutiny2 is a peer-reviewed journal which is indexed by the MLA, among
others. Past contributors to the journal include international scholars of
note such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Laura Chrisman, David Attwell, Peter
Horn, Kole Omotoso, David Schalkwyk, Devi Sarenjeive, John Higgins and
many others.

Write to the Editor, Leon de Kock, at dkockl_at_unisa.ac.za or to the
Co-editor, Deirdre Byrne, at byrnedc_at_unisa.ac.za for more details.

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