[Commlist] Call for Papers: 'Before, After and Beyond: Prequels and Sequels in Literature, Arts and Culture'

Call for Papers: ‘Before, After and Beyond: Prequels and Sequels in 
Literature, Arts and Culture’

A Special Issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance


View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-adaptation-in-film-performance#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-adaptation-in-film-performance#call-for-papers>


Edited by Annamária Fábián and Márta Minier

Proposals for scholarly articles, practitioners’ perspective essays and 
practitioner interviews are warmly invited for the upcoming special 
issue of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance. This thematic 
issue will address adapting and recreating various forms of text into 
various modes of media through enhancing or challenging the concept of 
temporal and spatial continuity, i.e. through prequels and sequels.


Adaptation theory has historically tended to exclude prequels and 
sequels from its scope; they were treated as marginal or at least 
separate from ‘regular’ adaptations  mainly because, as Linda Hutcheon 
(2006) pinpoints, building on Marjorie Garber (2003), “[t]here is a 
difference between never wanting a story to end […] and wanting to 
retell the same story over and over in different ways”. Yet, it has 
become apparent that prequels and sequels are here to stay, and they 
indeed seem to have a unique potential in retelling and reinterpreting 
stories as well as repositioning them in a new temporal and/or spatial 
framework. Whether it is the recontextualization of canonical/classical 
cultural content in (re)defined temporalities or the ever-renewing waves 
of complex storyverses through multiple, never-ending blockbuster series 
and spinoffs on various streaming platforms, digging for those new 
beginnings and not wanting a story to end seem to impress with 
unprecedented popularity and a potential to provide yet more layers to 
telling the same stories over and over again.

We welcome abstracts of cca 300 words accompanied by a biographical note 
and resonating with one or more of the following:

  *

    the story as continuum

  *

    various works begun and continued in multimedial forms

  *

    the challenges of beginning and ending narratives

  *

    the theory of preceding and following

  *

    temporal and spatial repositioning/reframing of various narratives

  *

    classics reframed

  *

    perspectives on transmedia universes; storyverses

  *

    backstories and spinoffs

  *

    typologies and theories of prequels and sequels

  *

    prequels, sequels and hypertextuality

  *

    history and storylines challenged and disrupted

  *

    prequels and sequels and/as anachronisms

  *

    convergence cultures as platform of prequels and sequels

  *

    prequels and sequels in the context of paratextuality

Authors are encouraged to submit their latest research findings 
(traditional research articles, practitioners’ perspectives 
contributions and interview-articles) aligned with the topics listed 
above – the list is to serve as a guideline and food for thought only. 
We welcome topics embracing other ideas connected to prequels and 
sequels in any media and in any artform in the most general sense.


Important Dates:

Deadline for submitting abstracts: 31 January 2025

Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2025

Deadline for submitting papers: 2 June 2025

Double-blind peer-reviewing process over summer 2025

Abstracts should be sent to both the editors:

(fabian.annamaria /at/ btk.elte.hu) <mailto:(fabian.annamaria /at/ btk.elte.hu)>and 
(marta.minier /at/ southwales.ac.uk) <mailto:(marta.minier /at/ southwales.ac.uk)>


In the subject line, please write “prequel_sequel_special_issue_Name_Title”

If you have any questions regarding the issue, please don’t hesitate to 
contact the editors.

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