[ecrea] Call for Papers: Detecting Detection in Modern Narrative

> CFP: Detecting Detection: Reading Detection as Motif in Modern Narrative
>
> Extended Deadline: January 15, 2010.
>
> Apologies for cross-posting
>
> What is detective work, and who might do it? 
> What needs to be detected, and why? How does the 
> narrative structure of detection function within 
> a larger plot? While a great deal of fruitful 
> investigation has been done on the detective 
> story, relatively little attention has been 
> given to the role of detection as one motif 
> among others?that is, to the accidental or 
> incidental detectives who appear so persistently 
> in literary works, who investigate matters that 
> may not even officially count as ?crimes. ? By 
> bringing together different instances of its 
> use, the collection will explore the current 
> meanings of detection as a narrative device.
>
>  Investigations might treat, among other 
> possibilities, the role of detection in 
> constructing or articulating the following:
>
> --gender
> --identity
> --melancholy
> --militarism
> --economic or environmental justice
> --family
> --sexuality
> --race
> --individualism
> --genre
>
> The collection will be edited by Peter Baker and 
> Deborah Shaller.  Please send 300-500 word 
> abstracts by e-mail to 
> (dshaller /at/ towson.edu).  Queries at the same address are welcome at any time.

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