Special Issue: Writers of the Millennium: Trends and Challenges, December 2020

Guest Editor: Dr Ana Raquel Fernandes (Universidade Europeia, Lisboa; CEAUL/ULICES – University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies), ana.fernandes@universidadeeuropeia.pt

American, British and Canadian Studies is now accepting submissions for its December 2020 issue, dedicated to Writers of the Millennium: Trends and Challenges. We invite contributions in the form of articles, essays, interviews, book reviews, conference presentations and project outlines that seek to take Anglophone studies to a new level of enquiry across disciplinary boundaries. Guidelines for contributors are available below and on the journal’s website.

The New Millenium has brought new challenges to writers on both sides of the Atlantic, in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in the USA and Canada. The socio-political changes and economic crisis felt at the beginning of the millennium as well as more recent events such as the EU referendum in Britain, the discussion over Brexit, and the beginning of the Trump era, have all had an impact on fiction from the 2000s and beyond.

Writers of the New Millennium, both new and more established voices, address both novel and recurrent themes, revealing some of the main concerns worldwide, experimenting with narrative techniques and literary strategies.

For this special issue, we invite original critical articles which address the concerns of the 21st century from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary angles.

Key themes may include, but are not limited to:

• Literature and History;
• Fiction and Reality;
• National Identity;
• Devolution Fiction;
• The Post-Brexit Novel: Britain vis-à-vis the European project;
• Race and Postcolonial Identity;
• The Novel and the Re-Inscription of Female Identity: genre and gender;
• Ecocriticism and the novel.

Articles will be subject to a blind peer reviewing process and must not be under consideration for any other publications. Please refer to the author submission guidelines on the American, British and Canadian Studies Journal website, http://abcjournal.eu/.

Submission guidelines: The first page of the manuscript should carry the title, author’s name, institutional affiliation, a 200-word abstract, and ten key words/concepts. The article/piece must include a 200-word biographical note, and must conform to MLA referencing (7th Edition). Please see further information and instructions on the Journal’s guidelines at: http://abcjournal.eu/.

The word limit for scholarly articles is 8500 words.

The word limit for creative pieces is 3000 words.

The word limit for reviews is 1000 words.

Please email enquiries and submissions marked “Writers of the Millennium: Trends and Challenges” to Dr Ana Raquel Fernandes on ana.fernandes@universidadeeuropeia.pt copied to abc.journal@ulbsibiu.ro, before the closing date.

Guidelines for contributors are available here: https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/abcsj/abcsj-overview.xml?tab_body=overview