[ecrea] Special Issue CFP: Captivity Narratives Then and Now

/NANO: New American Notes Online /seeks submissions for an upcoming 
special issue.


Captivity is everywhere in the texts and popular culture of the 20th and 
21st centuries—from headline grabbing icons of captivity such as Patty 
Hearst and Jessica Lynch to the growth of captivity-themed popular 
television such as /Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Orange is the New Black, 
/and/ The Handmaid’s Tale/. In its modern iterations, captivity serves 
to both reify and defy the social construction of race, gender, and 
national identity endemic to early expressions of the genre.

But, early captivity narratives set the stage for these modern examples. 
In fact, there is a large body of scholarship from Nancy Armstong, 
Rebecca Blevins Faery, Christopher Castiglia, Cathy Rex, Gordon Sayre, 
and Susan Scheckel among others, attesting to the cultural and 
ideological role that 17th-century captivity narratives like Mary 
Rowlandson’s ur-text have played in the development of an imagined 
national community. These early narratives also established one of the 
most consistent tropes of the genre: the use of white female bodies “as 
guardians of the boundaries of race to serve the territorial and 
political purposes of white men and their claim to dominance,” (Faery) 
or to create what Lauren Berlant has called a “national symbolic.”

This /NANO /special issue seeks to explore this complex legacy by 
inviting multimodal papers that examine tropes of captivity in 20thand 
21st century culture. More specifically, we seek papers that explore the 
legacy of the captivity narrative genre, particularly its modern, 
postmodern, and contemporary permutations. This issue seeks to determine 
the extent to which narratives of captives, particularly those written 
by women, persist and define American literature and culture.

This issue of /NANO /welcomes multimodal essays up to 4,000 words 
(excluding works cited) exploring topics relating to captivity 
narratives, including but not limited to the following:

  * the various forms of captivity (e.g., lawful imprisonment,
    kidnapping, mental or physical illness, abuse, sex trafficking,
    slavery) in women’s narratives of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
  * captivity narratives in modern and contemporary media (women’s
    magazines, television, film, graphic novels, video games)
  * captivity narratives, the nation & nationalism, particularly during
    times of war of political conflict
  * captivity narratives and the construction of gender and the domestic
    sphere
  * captivity narratives, race, and the construction of the other
  * the use of writing and narrative as therapy to cope with the trauma
    of captivity
  * the various coping strategies women have used to deal with captivity
    in different times and places
  * social valuations of transculturation in the narratives of captive
    women, including but not limited to transatlantic, trans-Caribbean,
    and other border-crossing captivities
  * voyeurism and the male gaze in women’s captivity narratives

Please direct questions to the special issue co-editors: Megan Behrent 
((mbehrent /at/ citytech.cuny.edu)) and Rebecca Devers ((rdevers /at/ citytech.cuny.edu)).

/NANO/ is a multimodal journal. Therefore, we encourage submissions that 
include images, sound, video, data sets, or digital tools in support of 
a written argument. The multimodal components of the essay must be owned 
or licensed by the author, come from the public domain, or fall within 
reasonable fair use (see Stanford University Libraries’ Copyright & Fair 
Use site,http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/
  and the U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use site, 
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
for more information). /NANO/’s Copyright and Permissions information is 
on the top left of this page.

For questions about video, audio, or image usage, please contact /NANO/: 
(editornano /at/ citytech.cuny.edu) <mailto:(editornano /at/ citytech.cuny.edu)>.

/NANO/ uses modified 8th Edition MLA (Modern Language Association) 
formatting and style.See: 
/https://www.nanocrit.com/Submissions/Submission-Guidelines/

Please use the Submission Form on top left of this page.

Keywords and abstract: Each author is asked to submit 5 keywords and a 
150-word abstract to accompany their submission.

Deadlines concerning the special issue to be published in /NANO/:

  * Submission deadline: May 15, 2018
  * Pre-production begins June, 2018
  * Publication: fall 2018




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