[ecrea] Call for Chapter Proposals on The Twilight Saga

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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)>