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[ecrea] Call for Chapter Proposals on The Twilight Saga

Wed Jul 18 21:14:31 GMT 2012




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Claudia Bucciferro
Visiting Assistant Professor
Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA
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Call for Chapter Proposals on The Twilight Saga
We would like to invite submissions of chapter proposals for an edited book titled The Twilight Saga: Exploring Its Worldwide Popularity, to be published by Scarecrow Press (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield). The book will present an analysis of the Twilight franchise in relationship to the larger cultural and social trends of our global world. The goal is to address basic questions that have not been satisfactorily answered yet, namely: How can the series' worldwide popularity be explained? What does Twilight's success reveal about global information flows and transnational cultural trends? While plenty has been said about Twilight in the media, only a few books consider it from a scholarly perspective, and they focus primarily on the novels. The Twilight Saga: Exploring Its Worldwide Popularity will consider both the books and the movies, emphasizing the relationship between the text, the audience, the entertainment industry, and other aspects of the multimillion-dollar franchise. The approach will be interdisciplinary and the overarching framework is Cultural Studies. The book will seek to understand the Twilight phenomenon-making sense of how it fits within larger contexts, while exploring the tensions that arise as different aspects of it are brought into focus. We welcome chapter proposals that address Twilight from a variety of perspectives, with emphasis on understanding its appeal as a popular culture product of international and intercultural relevance. The following is a preliminary list of topics:
- "Mixed blood" and "otherness" in Twilight.
- History, historicity, and postmodernity in Twilight.
- Empowering Bella: Feminism, femininity, and the teen heroine.
- Vampires and masculinity: Re-framing the hero.
- Wealthy, white vampires and poor, brown werewolves: Issues of race and class.
- Transformation, identity, and identification: The audience and the texts.
- Beneath the sparkly surface: The political economy of the Twilight franchise. - Twilight, Harry Potter, and The Hunger Games: The pattern beyond the differences.
- Teen culture and transnational information flows in late capitalism.
- Reading Twilight in the developing world.
- Worldwide fan culture, celebrity worship, and the "Twilight Moms."
- Twilight and the vampire subgenre: Points of convergence, departure, and change.

Proposals should be 500 words max., and the deadline for submissions is August 31, 2012. Please submit by e-mail to (bucciferro /at/ gonzaga.edu) <mailto:(bucciferro /at/ gonzaga.edu)>. After selection of proposals, full chapters (each approximately 6,000 words long) will be due December 20, 2012. The estimated publication date of the volume is Spring 2014.


Claudia Bucciferro
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Arts
Gonzaga University
502 E. Boone Ave.
Spokane, WA 99258-0089
(509) 313-3635 (direct)
(509) 313-5718 (fax)
(bucciferro /at/ gonzaga.edu) <mailto:(bucciferro /at/ gonzaga.edu)>

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