Call for Articles: “Revisiting Tennessee Williams’s ‘Weird Tales’”
Articles are invited for a special Issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English on Tennessee Williams’s Short Fiction, to be published in 2026.
More info: https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/4005
Suggested areas of research include, but are not limited to, the following topics in relation to Williams's short fiction:
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Narrative voice and narrative strategies.
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Repeated motifs, images, settings, characters, situations, etc.
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Intertextuality.
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The influence of other forms of arts (comics, cartoons, painting, cinema, music…).
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Myths and mythological figures.
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Animal figures and the non-human.
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Landscape and nature (ecocritical perspectives)
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Gender and racial representations.
Proposals of 400 to 500 words should be sent by 30 September 2024 along with a bibliography, and a short bio-bibliography to both sophie.maruejouls@live.fr and laura.torres@uam.es.
Completed articles will be due by 30 June 2025.