Archive for calls, December 2017
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Terrible Beauties: Europe, Conflict and the Imagination
in Literature and the Arts
A RATIONALE FOR THE COLLECTION
Episodes of conflict have often proved to be watersheds
in the history of Europe, its states and its peoples. Wars
have involved the redrawing of maps and the reconfiguration
of identities of smaller as well as larger units – of
nations, localities, institutions, and the connecting
networks of solidarity and allegiance. Conflict has dictated
the rise and fall of states and political regimes, the
slaughter and displacement of populations, the destruction
of infrastructures; it has also entailed medical and
technological progress, and stood at the roots of much
social innovation and artistic creativity. Additionally, war
has played a central role in the relationship between
Europeans and people in other parts of the world, most
notably Africa, Asia and the Americas in the long course of
modern imperialism. From Agincourt to the Somme, from
Balaclava to El Alamein, the history of civilization is
inextricable from the history of catastrophe. Indeed, not a
few catastrophes have been caused in the name of
civilization.
The present peer-reviewed collection aims at considering
the consequences that a history of conflict(s) in Europe has
had, within imaginative production, for an ongoing
refashioning of perceived identities. The volume is intended
to showcase and discuss the impact of such processes on
literary and artistic representations, with an emphasis on
materials from the British Isles but preferably also from a
comparatist perspective.
The collection reflects the ongoing concerns of a
research group, Relational Forms: Medial and Textual
Transits in Ireland and Britain, based at CETAPS (the Centre
for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies),
which has been responsible for a wide gamut of publications,
including Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts:
Page and Stage, Canvas and Screen, ed. Rui Carvalho Homem
(Rodopi: 2012), and English Literature and the Disciplines
of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century: A Trade
for Light, ed. Jorge Bastos da Silva and Miguel Ramalhete
Gomes (Brill-Rodopi: 2017).
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
We invite contributions of essays (6000-8000 words)
consistent with the volume rationale outlined above.
Suggested (merely indicative) topics include:
- European wars in literature and the arts
- rout and road: narratives of disaster and displacement
- heroism, patriotism, faith, adventure, trauma
- poetry and battlefields, self and community
- reviewing the massacre: verbal and visual reenactments
of war scenarios
- conflict, identity, translation: representations across
media / across languages
- drama, war and Europe: “a nation thinking in public...”
- shooting Europe: film, war and memory
- war after peace, peace after war
Prospective contributors should send an extended abstract
(250-300 words) to (relational /at/ letras.up.pt). The
deadline for the submission of abstracts is 31 March 2018.
Contributors will be notified of the editors’ decision
before 30 April 2018. The collection is due to be published
by a global publisher in 2019.
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