[ecrea] CFP: The Adventures of Tintin (essay collection)

CFP: The Adventures of Tintin (essay collection)


Abstracts are now being accepted for inclusion in an anthology on “The
Adventures of Tintin.” Proposed essay topics should creatively engage
with the critical, philosophical, and social issues explored in the
Tintin universe.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

·       Tintin and Hergé

·       Tintin and comic book history

·       Tintin and detective fiction

·       Tintin and the adventure story

·       Tintin in translation

·       Censorship of Tintin

·       Tintin’s spinoffs

·       Tintin in adaptations

·       Tintin in films

·       Tintin clubs

·       Tintin and geography

·       Tintin and travel

·       Travel and colonialism

·       Treatment of race in Tintin

·       Snowy as sidekick

·       Animal welfare

·       EcoTintin

·       Tintin and gender

·       Tintin and masculinity; homosocial relations

·       Tintin in criticism


Submission Guidelines:


1.     Submission deadline for abstracts (100-500 words) and
(one-page) CVs: 30 April, 2012

2.     Submission deadline for first drafts of accepted papers: 15
September 2012.

3.     Submission deadline for final papers: 1 December 2012


Kindly submit abstracts (as Word Document attachment) to BOTH Tyler
Shores ((tyler.shores /at/ gmail.com)) and Tom Ue ((ue_tom /at/ hotmail.com)).


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