[ecrea] Call for Papers: Praxes of Popular Culture

      *Call for Papers:**Praxes of Popular Culture*

*[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation*
University of Zadar
Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV. br 2
23000 Zadar
www.sic-journal.org <http://www.sic-journal.org>


Popular culture studies, at their inception, started with a 
groundbreaking analysis and specific way of “reading” various elements 
of what is considered popular culture. In the last ten years, the focus 
has started to shift from pro wrestling and Marilyn Monroe (Roland 
Barthes), soap operas (Ien Ang), advertisements and movie industry 
(Slavoj Žižek), and various aspects of music industry (Louis Althusser, 
Stuart Hall), to newer forms of storytelling such as video games, 
interactive fiction, serialized movies and television series, as well as 
comic books and graphic novels. This shift became evident in the gaming 
and television industry that have been experiencing a significant market 
growth – the video game industry, for example, generated $108.4 billion 
in revenues in 2017, while the streaming service /Netflix/ had a 
reported annual revenue in 2016 of $8.83 billion with a profit of $186.7 
million. On the other hand, comic-book adaptations such as /Avengers: 
Infinity War/, which represents a culmination of the serialized Marvel 
Cinematic Universe (consisting of the previous 18 movies), crossed the 
$1 billion mark at the worldwide box office faster than any film in 
history. These newer forms of popular culture storytelling have a role 
in producing specific narratives as well as reflecting and/or subverting 
many discourses about various issues and topics, such as neoliberal 
politics, feminist movements, economic crisis, institutional racism, 
migration, gun violence, sexual harassment, educational policies, etc.

This reciprocity is primarily seen in various discussions within public 
space and global politics that establish, perpetuate, and react to other 
discourses, seen as areas of power. Power, which is for Foucault an 
omnipotent discursive force that comes from various sources, forms 
various knowledges and truths about, among other things, race, gender, 
nationality, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and in that way allows for the 
possibility of one ideology becoming superior to other possible 
ideologies in any given society, culture, economy, and/or politics. All 
of this results in a specific analytic interest (within various 
disciplines, including cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, 
literary theory, cultural theory, philosophy, etc.) that rises within 
the context of popular culture and reflects the ideologies of our time, 
while also creating new ones, as well as new discourses, new realities, etc.

For this, *17th**issue of */*[*//*sic*//*]*//*– a journal of literature, 
culture and literary translation*/, we invite fellow scholars to 
(re-)evaluate and explore the (discursive) power of popular culture and 
provide new insights from various fields relating and pertaining to 
popular culture studies today. We are interested in how fiction, 
discourses within fiction, and specific narratives profile the power 
relations within society (or societies), culture (or cultures), politics 
and economy.

We accept:

original research papers: 5,000 to 7,000 words

reviews: up to 2,000 words

translations of literary texts: 5,000 to 7,000 words

Submission of research papers, reviews, translations of literary texts 
implies that the work described has not been published previously and 
that its publication is approved by all authors. By submitting a 
manuscript to /[sic]/, the authors acknowledge that that the manuscript 
is original and entirely the result of work of the author or authors. 
The ownership and rights of works submitted and published in 
/[sic]/shall reside with the author(s). However, /[sic]/ reserves the 
primary right of publication.

*Submission Process*

All manuscripts (research papers, reviews, and translations of literary 
texts) should be submitted by email attachment to 
*(sic.journal.contact /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(sic.journal.contact /at/ gmail.com)>*. 
/[sic]/ accepts submissions in English or Croatian. Manuscripts must be 
computer typed and saved in .doc or .docx formats (Times New Roman, 
letter size 12 points, double spaced, fully paginated). Please attach to 
every submission a covering letter confirming that all authors have 
agreed to the submission and that the manuscript is not currently being 
considered for publication by any other journal.

*Research Articles*

All submitted research papers should contain:

title page with full title and subtitle (if any)

For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with 
current affiliation and full contact details plus short biographical 
note (up to 150 words) should be supplied in a separate file. Please 
ensure that you have anonymized the script throughout, deleting 
self-references until after the review process is complete.

abstract of 100-150 words

up to 10 key words

main text and word count – submissions must not exceed a total of 7,000 
words, including abstract, main text, notes, all references and author’s 
short biographical note

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders 
for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations 
previously published elsewhere (all quotations, titles, names, and dates 
should be double-checked for accuracy).

*Reviews*

All submitted reviews should include the following:

title page with full title of the review and additional information on 
the work reviewed (title, author, publisher, place and date of 
publication, number of pages)

main text and word count – submissions (main text of the review and 
author's biography) must not exceed a total of 2,000 words

*Translations of Literary Texts*

All translations should include the following:

title page with full title and subtitle (if any) and the author’s and 
translator’s name

main text and word count – submissions (main text or the translation, 
original author’s and translator’s biographies) must not exceed a total 
of 7,000 words

Authors of translations are responsible for obtaining permission from 
copyright holders allowing the publication of the original author’s work 
in their translation in /[sic]/.

*Citing and Formatting*

Authors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are accurately 
typed before final submission. Manuscripts may be returned to the author 
if they do not follow the basic guidelines of the house style. The house 
style for /[sic]/ is based on MLA (Modern Language Association, 2016 
Edition) Style (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/) 
Authors will receive proofs of their manuscripts and be asked to send 
corrections to the editors within 3 weeks. Submissions are subject to 
editing and styling that complies with the journal's standards. 
Submitted manuscripts are not returned to authors. The journal does not 
pay contributors.

Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on 
the Submission Process should be sent to the journal’s editors at: 
*(sic.journal.contact /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(sic.journal.contact /at/ gmail.com)>*.

*S**ubmission deadline:* *September**1**5**,**2018*
*Anticipated publication date:****December** 15**,**2018*


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