[ecrea] CfP- Censorship and Self-Censorship - Special issue of Between, journal of the Italian Association for the Theory and Comparative History of Literature

Censorship and Self-Censorship

Special issue of Between, journal of the Italian Association for the 
Theory and Comparative History of Literature (Compalit)

This issue aims at investigating the interconnection of censorship and 
self-censorship in a variety of domains, from literary works to 
audio-visual media, from criticism to cultural mediation, in order to 
re-examine the relationship between censorship and artistic expression. 
We will focus our investigation on the following themes:

1. Censorship and literary systems
Censorship arises from an incessant negotiating process between 
regulative forces and creative energies that does not only aim to 
silence opposing voices, but also procedurally establishes the 
possibilities of artistic expression. The dialectic relationship between 
institutional and pre-emptive censorship (Lavagetto) can be identified 
at both micro and macro levels of literary creation; accordingly, the 
mechanics of censorship and self-censorship permeate literary works in 
each of their phases, from composition (the constantly narrowing choice 
between different possibilities, as already argued by Maria Corti), to 
canon formation and, in general, mediation and transnational 
communication between literary systems (Even-Zohar).

2. Censorship and visual systems
Cinema, visual arts, and live performance often deploy images of sex, 
violence, horror, and death. Although stemming from marginal 
cinematographic genres (exploitation, extreme horror, hard core, etc.) 
and provocative artistic movements, these images are absorbed by the 
mainstream, allowing for the entrance of what is historically relegated 
to the regime of “ob/scenity” into the regime of “on/scenity”, according 
to the distinction proposed by Linda Williams. Moreover, the convergence 
between digital media and the web encourages new reception practices and 
the emergence of new kinds of audience—participatory communities that 
generate their own contents and prompt a continual and interesting 
negotiating process between obscenity and prohibition, which 
physiologically challenges the space of control of censorship.

We will welcome contributions on any aspects of censorship and 
self-censorship, such as but not limited to:

- The relationship between literary work and literary system
- Canon formation and the function of criticism
- Visible and invisible censorship
- Cultural mediation: publishing (translation, editing) and marketing 
(publication, circulation) dynamics
- Hierarchies between genres, registers, and expressive forms
- Democratic censorship and totalitarian censorship
- Images and political censorship
- The interconnections of art with politics and public morals
- Film genres and censorship
- Gender discourse and censorship
- New media, new audience, and censorship
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short biographical note to Antonio 
Bibbò ((antoniobib /at/ gmail.com)), Stefano Ercolino 
((stefano.ercolino /at/ virgilio.it)), and Mirko Lino ((miroslawit /at/ yahoo.it)) by 
September 15, 2014. Notification of acceptance will be given by 
September 30. The deadline for submission of accepted papers, which will 
be subject to peer review, and metadata is January 15, 2015, according 
to the instructions available at 
http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/pages/view/Submissions
Final articles must not exceed 40,000 characters (spaces included). We 
accept submissions in English, French, and Italian.

Antonio Bibbò (University of Genoa / University of L’Aquila)
Stefano Ercolino (Freie Universität Berlin)
Mirko Lino (University of Palermo)

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