[eccr] CFPs "Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror" from CLCWeb

>Call for papers: "Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror":
>
>This thematic issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ (ISSN 1481-4374), guest edited by
>Sophia A. McClennen (Pennstate) and Henry James Morello (Pennstate)
>aims at exploring the complexity and difficulty inherent in efforts to
>represent humanity during moments of social terror. The editors seek
>papers that analyze how the politics of panic and terror associated
>with war, authoritarianism, fascism, empire, and globalization require
>the construction of an inhuman other. To what extent do torture,
>genocide, and other forms of violence depend on an impoverished notion
>of humanity? How do these forms of violent othering relate to social
>practices of racial profiling, patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality,
>criminalizing of communities, classism, xenophobia, and other
>ideological structures dependent on divisive notions of social
>identity? And what role has cultural production played in challenging
>these notions? How have cultural products attempted to mediate the
>trauma of terror, record alternative versions of official history, and
>suggest alternative, egalitarian worldviews? What role does culture
>play in the struggle for Human Rights? And how can the scholarly
>methods of Comparative Cultural Studies enable interdisciplinary
>investigations into the relationship between politics, aesthetics,
>psychology, and historical crisis? The editors invite papers that take
>a global view of the ways that these issues have shaped the cultural
>landscape of the twentieth century. The volume will include the
>viewpoints of scholars, activists, and artists. All articles accepted
>for the journal will also appear in a hard-copy volume of the Purdue
>University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html . Manuscript
>specifics:
>
>Articles should not exceed 6000 words and they should use no end notes
>or footnotes. Citations follow the MLA guide for parenthetical
>citations and include a list of works cited. For more on CLCWeb's style
>guide see:
>
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html .
>
>About CLCWeb: Published by Purdue University Press and indexed in the
>MLA International Bibliography, etc., CLCWeb is the only open-access,
>full-text, and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the comparative study
>of culture and literature published online. CLCWeb publishes
>scholarship in the widest definition of the discipline of comparative
>literature and culture and it combines comparative literature with
>cultural studies (see the journal's Aims and Objectives at
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/aims.html and
>Procedures of Submission at
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html).
>
>The deadline of complete manuscripts (in an attachment via e-mail only)
>is 15 March 2006 to Henry James Morello at (morello /at/ psu.edu)
>
>Announcement: 7.2 (June 2005) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and
>Culture (ISSN 1481-4374) is online now:
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu . For
>the table of contents of the issue link to
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb05-2/contents05-2.html . This
>is a thematic issue entitled "American Cultural Studies" and guest
>edited by
>Joanne Morreale and P. David Marshall, with papers on Harry Potter and
>Child
>Audience by Kara Lynn Andersen, on Chinese gay cinema by Lan Dong, on
>dust
>and the avant garde by Jake Kennedy, on reality TV by Joanne Morreale,
>on
>the hegemony of American and British music by Rebecca Romanow, on
>electronic
>participation in policy making by Rebecca J. Romsdahl, and on nation
>and
>heritage in Britain by Ryan S. Trimm. The issue also contains a
>selected
>bibliography of scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies and
>popular
>culture, compiled by Steven Totosy and Yilin Liao.
>
>Announcement: Three new volumes published in the Purdue University
>Press
>series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
>http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html &
>http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp :
>1) Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed.
>Steven
>Totosy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ISBN
>1-55753-378-4 (pbk), 147 pages, $ 34.95. The papers in this volume of
>the
>Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
>represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael
>Ondaatje's
>oeuvre by scholars working on English-Canadian literature and culture
>in
>Canada, England, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA.
>2) Fojas, Camilla. Cosmopolitanism in the Americas. West Lafayette:
>Purdue
>University Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55753-382-2 (pbk), 150 pages, $ 34.95.
>Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a
>sign
>of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of
>international luxury items and cultural production in the Americas and
>an
>analysis of works by Guatemalan Enrique Gomez Carrillo, the travel
>writings
>from the Chicago World's Fair of Cuban Aurelia Castillo de Gonzalez,
>the
>Venezuelan journal Cosmopolis, and Rodo's infamous Ariel.
>3) Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature. Ed. Louise O. Vasvari and
>Steven
>Totosy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ISBN
>1-55753-396-2 (pbk), 300 pages, $34.95. Written by scholars in Canada,
>Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, and the USA, the book
>is the
>first English-language volume of scholarship about the work of the
>Nobel
>Laureate.

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