[ecrea] Call For Chapters for Narratives of Place in Literature and Film

The deadline for the call for chapters for an edited anthology on 
Narratives of Place in Literature and Film is under two weeks away (18th 
September).

Description:

Narratives of place link people and geographical location with a 
cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration. The social 
and cultural spatialities of place have ancient roots, yet continue to 
evolve. Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with 
specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with 
cultural meanings in relation to natural and man-made landscapes. For 
example, fiction novels like Vikas Swarup's /Slumdog Millionaire /(2005) 
that takes place in Mumbai and Orhan Pamuk's many novels set in Istanbul 
immerse characters in the sentient cityscapes of modern metropolises. 
The Pacific Crest Trail in Cheryl Strayed's /Wild/ (2013) and Cormac 
McCarthy's /The Road /(2006) and their film adaptations speak to, and 
beyond, American pastoralism and the metaphor of the road. Place, of 
course, refers not only to land; cinematically, Andrew Kötting’s 
round-Britain coastal excursion, /Gallivant /(1996), reveals people in 
relation to their locales, whilst /Last Resort /(Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, 
2000) examines entrapment and exclusion through an abandoned seaside 
town converted into an immigration center. From the labyrinthine streets 
of big cities to landmarks in open landscapes, place provides rich 
visual subtexts in films. Place may be manmade or natural, but is 
always-already imbued with meaning and cultural significance. In 
/Landscape and Memory/ (1995), Simon Schama comments, "landscapes are 
culture before they are nature" (61). In cultural production, place is 
associated with human identity and ideologically with the formation of 
nations, borders, indigeneity, and perceptions of selfhood and 
otherness. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to interrogate such 
connections to probe how place is narrativized.

Scope:

Drawing on, but not limited to, the fields of literature and film 
studies, this collection seeks a broad range of responses to questions 
regarding the narrativizing of place. Possible themes include:

·movement through landscapes

·gendered spatialities

·narrativizing histories of place

·notions of belonging and displacement

·nation, borders, and identity

·boundaries, thresholds and liminal spaces

·place as a loci of contestation

·corruption and contamination of/by places

Anthology editors:

·Steven Allen, PhD, University of Winchester, UK

·Kirsten Møllegaard, PhD, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA

Submission details:

Abstracts of 300-350 words are invited along with a 100-150 word 
biography to the email address below. The deadline for abstract 
submission is 18^th September, 2016. Notification of acceptance or 
rejection will be emailed by 2^nd October 2016. An academic publishing 
house has already expressed an interest in the project. Subject to a 
positive review from the publisher of the full book proposal, the 
provisional deadline for draft chapters (6000 words max.) is June 2017.

Contact email (submission and inquiries):

·(narrativesandplace /at/ gmail.com)


With thanks,
Kirsten and Steven
University of Winchester


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