Alternative Realities: New Challenges for American Literature in the Era of Trump
Friday 13 – Saturday 14 December 2019
Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin
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Friday 13 – Saturday 14 December 2019
Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin
CALL FOR PAPERS: American Literature/Studies Proposals
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
Thursday, November 14, 2019 to Sunday, November 17, 2019, Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel, San Diego, California
In “The Effects of Superhero Sagas on Our Gendered Selves,” Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz and Hillary Pennell suggest that superheroes are most often represented across U.S. popular culture texts as “super gendered" in ways that impact how we as a culture “construct gender-related identities, attitudes, and beliefs” by affirming gender norms. While there has been much scholarly analysis of gender identity, presentation, and performance in relation to female superheroes, less critical attention has been paid to examining the cultural function of male superheroes in either affirming or challenging hegemonic masculinity.
This panel explores the interconnection of avant-garde humor with forms of political action that defied conventional art and lifestyles. The significance of the comical aspect centers on a greater understanding of experimental practices as cases that unsettle the establishment. Literally meaning “advance guard” in French, the term holds a military sense that applies to artists and works characterized by their combative nature and their tendency to question the acceptability of norms and traditional aesthetic genres. Avant-garde artists made use of humor as a political weapon that destabilized the status quo by challenging bourgeois values and promoting radical reforms on a sociocultural level.
Dear Colleagues,
"Interface" calls for papers for Issue 10: Poetry and Transculturality in Asia and Europe – Philosophical and Psychological aspects
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2019
Publication Date: October 2019
Interface -Journal of European Languages and Literatures (Home page)
CFP Special Journal Edition
Brexit Wounds: Cultural responses to Leaving the EU
Editors:
Dr Eleanor Byrne, Senior Lecturer in English, Manchester Met
Dr Fionna Barber, Reader in Art History, Manchester School of Art
We are currently accepting manuscripts for OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society Vol.9 No.2 that will be published on July 31, 2019. To be considered for the upcoming issue, OMNES 9(2), please submit your manuscript by April 30, 2019. Submissions are open all year round.
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