CFP Books/Journals:Postcolonial British Generations

Call For Papers:

“My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost.

I am often considered to be a funny kind of Englishman,

a new breed as it were,

having emerged from two old histories.”

(Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia)

The process of human migration is as old as humanity, however, migration as we know it in a contemporary context has strong ties with the colonial past of the Western world, as colonisation, conquering, forming empires were one of the most massive processes of European history. Even if former Empires vanished in the 20^th century, the consequences, mindsets and socio-cultural heritage of the colonial past are still present. One of these components of the colonial heritage is migration, resulting from the displacement left and felt after the disintegration of imperial structures.

Though migration is a worldwide phenomenon, one of the countries and cultures most affected by the loss of the Empire and the intensifying migration in the aftermath of the imperial heritage is Great Britain. Their colonial enterprise and imperial domination ended and resulted in an increasingly multicultural and multiethnic society.

As a result of the decades that have passed since the beginning of modern migration, various multicultural and multi-ethnic environments have developed, and today we have the chance to examine the experiences of multiple generations of migrants; not only as a consequence of passing time, but also of post-colonial, diaspora, multicultural arts practiced by various generations of (im)migrants. The experience of migration, the challenges of settling down, fitting in and assimilating into a culture or keeping to one’s roots, cultures and languages– although often thought to be a homogeneous phenomenon – show not only individual differences, but elicit varying responses and strategies in different generations of (im)migrants.

While reading, watching, experiencing such pieces of art, a multitude of questions may arise. How many generations does it take to blend into a culture as someone having outlandish origins? Is there such an urge present in different generations at all? How do different generations of immigrants approach their cultural heritage? Are their examples of taking pride in being a(n) (descendant of) an immigrant? For how long is the offspring of immigrants considered as an n^th-generation immigrant? How long does the “us vs. them” narrative haunt contemporary societies? What are the attitudes (and do they show variations among different groups) towards the colonial past of Britain? How can the history of the Empire be revisited and possibly rewritten?

The 2018 Autumn issue of in esse: English Studies in Albania is inviting contributions that approach the above questions from an interdisciplinary point of view as represented in the fields of British literature, film and popular culture.

Topics for contributions may include but are not limited to:

·       migrant narratives

·       diaspora experiences

·       issues of cultural heritage(s)

·       problems of identity and identification

·       assimilation and/or embracing roots

·       multiculturalism

·       multi-ethnicity

·       in-betweenness

·       rewriting the colonial past/colonial texts

·       commenting on colonial strategies of representation

Please send an abstract of 250 words with 4-5 keywords as an email attachment to the following email address: fannifeldmann@gmail.com.

Contributions should not exceed 6000 words.Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition) for citation. Further queries should be addressed to the General Editor at armelap@assenglish.org or to the guest editor of the issue at fannifeldmann@gmail.com.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2018

Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2018

Deadline for papers: 20 June 2018

For further information please visit: http://www.assenglish.org/

Contact Info: 

General Editor at armelap@assenglish.org or the guest editor of the issue at fannifeldmann@gmail.com

Contact Email: 

fannifeldmann@gmail.com

URL: 

http://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-01-03/#postcolonial

Call For Chapters: Dialectic of Digital Culture-Editors: David Arditi and Jennifer Miller

Concept Note:

Idealist thinking marked the development of the Internet and digital technologies, especially in the 1990s. Writers, both academic and popular, imagined a more democratic world where information would be unrestricted, communication would erase space, and technologies would free our time. In many ways, rhetoric about the Internet and other digital technologies parallel the uncritical hope many found in the technological inventions of the scientific revolution and philosophical edicts of the Enlightenment. In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer demonstrate that the exact developments in science and technology heralded by enlightenment thinkers as elevating freedom actually resulted in greater oppression of the masses.

Utopian (and dystopian) visions of technology surround us, but they tend to obscure more than they reveal. Nuanced accounts of existing digital phenomenon are necessary to identify the operations of power and complex cultural logics embedded in seemingly novel cultural texts and practices.

This edited collection aims to explore the contradictions of digital culture to provide the critical work necessary to understand the role of digital technology in contemporary society.

We seek theoretical engagements with the digital dialectic as well as case studies that explore the contradictions inherent in digital phenomena. Several contributors have been confirmed. Areas of scholarship currently underrepresented include (but are not limited to):

• Net neutrality
• Platforms – Amazon, Google, Apple, Spotify, etc.
• Professionalization/Commodification of “amateur” culture (fanfiction, crafts, ext.)
• Social Media
• Political Organizing
• Environmental Issues/Sustainability
• Dark Web – Tor
• Journalism (alternative facts; changes in print media)
• Disability Cultures

Please submit a 300-500-word abstract and 200-word author bio by March 1, 2018 to DialecticDigitalCulture@gmail.com. Drafts of accepted chapters will be due August 1, 2018.

Contact Email: 

DialecticofDigitalCulture@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.uta.edu/theory/research/Dialectic_of_Digital_Culture-CFP.pdf

CFP: Special Issue on “Environment and Ethics”- UGC Approved Journal-BCJMS

Call For Papers:

Papers are invited for a Special Issue on “Environment and Ethics” to be published from Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies ( a refereed national journal approved by the UGC at www.bcjms.bhattercollege.ac.in ).

Areas of Submission

• Emerging issues and theories of Environmental Ethics
• Environmental ethics as represented in Art and Literature
• Environmental Ethics as an Interdisciplinary Area
• Classical theories of Environmental Ethics
• Environmental Ethics in the Social Sciences
• Activism around the world with Environmental Ethics
• Cultural Studies and Environment
• Archaeology and Environmental Ethics

Authors can also contact for inclusion of new areas in the theme.

Deadline: 15 January 2018.

Edited by

 Arabinda Paul

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Bhatter College, Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India.

Contact: arabinda.bc.phil@gmail.com

Call For Book Chapters:Women, Work And Well-being’ with ISBN Number

Call For Papers:

The book will be published by a national publisher with ISBN number. Chapters are invited on the topics mentioned below.


Book title: Women, Work and Well-Being












Chapters: Book is divided in three sections.

Section 1: Workplace Difficulties, Biases and Perceptions of Women
• Women in management and gender inequality
• Workplace discrimination against women sexual harassment at workplace
• Gender pay gap and well-being of working women
• Gender bias against women leaders
• Women is the enemy of women: understanding the intergenerational conflict
• Work life balance and well-being
• Women entrepreneurs and their performance and well-being
• Psychological well-being of working women
• Government policies, program and provision to safeguard the working women.

Section 2: Well-Being of Women across Different Professions
• Women in politics
• Women in administrative service
• Women in business
• Women in medicine and health care
• Women in construction section
• Women in IT
• Women in cinema 

Section 3: Enhancing Well-Being
• Optimism
• Mindfulness
• Social relationship
• Resilience
• Developing strength











Interested authors may send their chapter to mail id ‘drmanjumishrahrpg@gmail.com’ as per guidelines given in the attached sheet on or before 30th Jan, 2018. Please feel free to contact me on 9005788024 between 10.00 am to 7.00 pm.

With regards
Dr Manju Mishra
Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology
H R P G College Khalilabad, UP

CFP: Journal on Comparative Critical Studies, Special Issue ‘Translation meets Book History: Intersections 1700-1950’

Guest Edited by Alice Colombo (University of Bristol), Niall Ó Ciosáin (NUI Galway) and Anne O’Connor (NUI Galway)

Book history and translation studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of print culture. Although driven respectively by bibliographic and comparativist linguistic interests, the two fields have converged into a shared perception of texts as cultural and social products controlled by interconnected networks of agents. Efforts to delve deeper into the nature of these networks and into the mobility of printed texts have led to fruitful cross-disciplinary intersections. As a result, translation scholars are becoming increasingly receptive to the relevance of textual materiality while book historians are turning to comparative approaches and the transnational side of publishing. On a general level, texts and their trajectories are more and more frequently analysed by integrating conceptual, methodological and theoretical frameworks originally developed in either book history or translation studies (see for example Heilbrom 2008; Bachleitner 2010; Freedman 2012; O’Sullivan 2012; Armstrong 2013; Littau 2016; Belle & Hosington 2017). The success of this interdisciplinary approach is leading to a growing awareness that further dialogue between studies and book history is needed to achieve more accurate representations of the transnational life of print culture. This special issue aims at exploring and further promoting intersections between the two fields with a particular focus on the multifaceted international publishing panorama that characterised the period between 1700 and 1950. Contributions are especially encouraged on thematic areas including:

- The materiality of translation

- Translations’ paratext and translation of paratext

- Translation and the transnationalisation of print culture

- Translation and the sociology of texts

- Translation and textual bibliography

- Agents involved in the production and distribution of translations and their relation on a national and international level

- Translation of popular literature and ephemera 

- Translation and book illustration

- Translation, religion and book history 

- Translation and musical texts 

- Terminology of the book across languages

- Translation and the transformation of reading habits and attitudes

- Research methodologies in translation studies and book history

Instructions for authors

Submission instructions

Articles will be about 7000 words in length, in English (including notes and references)

Abstracts of 500-700 words (including references) should be sent together with a short biographical note to the guest editors at translationbookhistory@gmail.com

Schedule

28 February 2018 – deadline to submit abstracts and biographical note to the guest editors

23 March 2018 – deadline for decisions on abstracts

31 August 2018 – deadline for submission of articles

23 November 2018 – submission of final version of papers

June 2019 – publication of the issue

All articles will be reviewed by two readers.

For information please contact Alice Colombo at translationbookhistory@gmail.com

For information about the journal please visit http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ccs

Call For Essays: The Green Critique: A Collection of Critical Essays on (Edited Volume on Ecocriticism)

Concept Note

Ecocriticism began as a result of the environmental revolution that had begun around the 1960s after the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. It focuses on the importance of the relationship between human beings and nature, how human beings are both effecting and affecting nature and vice versa. With time, it started to lay significant impact over various other disciplines as well and emerged as an umbrella term in critical, cultural and academic discourse. As an ‘earth-centered approach’, it intersected environment and culture and calling for collaboration between natural scientists, writers, literary critics, anthropologists, historians, academicians and more.

In a broader perspective, ‘Ecocriticism’ guides us to examine the world around us and critiquing the approach of society in the treatment of nature. The theory helps in analyzing any literary or non-literary text with an eye on nature portrayed by the author and the ecocritical trope within it. This is a tool to address thought-provoking questions like how is nature represented in this text? How is the setting of the text related to the environment? How are metaphors and images used to represent nature? How do we see issues of environmental disaster and crises reflected in popular culture and literary works? How do the roles or representations of men and women towards the environment differ in plays/films/texts (literary or non-literary) down the ages? What kind of politics is involved in ‘humanistic representation of nature’? Where is the environment placed in ‘power hierarchy’? How is nature empowered or oppressed in ‘humanistic representations’? What parallels can be drawn between sufferings and oppression of groups of people (women, minorities, immigrants, etc.) and the treatment of land? With an honest attempt to answer these questions, we can address insightful issues related to ‘Ecocriticism’, ‘Ecofeminism’, ‘Ecopoetics’, ‘Ecological Imperialism’ and the like of it.

Ecologists have tried to motivate people to be sympathetic and respectful of ‘mother- nature’. This theory has motivated writers to initiate people against the time when the consequences of human actions would be damaging the planet’s basic life support system. This awareness brings in us a desire to contribute, in our own way, to environmental restoration, not only as a hobby but as a representative of literature. Ecocritics encourage others to think seriously about the aesthetic and ethical dilemmas posed by the environmental crisis and about how language and literature transmit values with profound ecological implications.

To meet convenience for the contributors, some issues/sub-issues have been listed below. These are only suggestive and contributors are free to choose their areas of interest within this wider framework. The sub-themes are as follows:-

• Ecological Imperialism
• Women and nature: similarity and differences
• Environmental challenges and responses
• Ecopoetics
• Ecocriticism and Folklore
• Eco-consciousness in classic literature
• Deep Ecology
• Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Nature, Culture, Power.
• Ecocomposition and Rhetoric
• Eco Pedagogy and teaching
• Man, masculinity and nature
• Environmental ethics
• Nature and supernature
• Zoo theory and nature
• Animals and/in Ecocriticism

Editing requirements

• Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: 1.5 lines, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides
• Title of the paper: bold, Sentence case (Capitalize each word), centered
• Text of the paper: Justified. Font & Size: Times New Roman – 12
• References: Please follow MLA style (latest)
• Articles should be submitted as MS Word attachments only
• The length of article should be 3000-5000 words
• Any book review should be within 2000 words.
• Use endnotes, not footnotes.

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Important Dates

15^th January– Final Submission

31^st January– Intimation of Acceptance

Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from students, scholars and researchers. The book will be published with an ISBN by a renowned publisher in the month of April 2018.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

1. Newnessof approach or method.
2. Relevance to the theme/sub-themes.
3. Clear presentation of the argument.
4. Originalityof conception.

Email ID for the submission of paper: environscritique@gmail.com

For any further queries, contact

1. Krishanu Maiti: krishanumaiti@yahoo.com, 9126358129

2. Soumyadeep Chakraborty, soumyadeepmid@gmail.com, 9734662719

Call for Research Papers-ISBN Book-Diaspora as Cathartic Metaphor: A Hermeneutical Approach

This is to bring to your scholarly attention that I am bringing out a book on Diaspora as Cathartic Metaphor: A Hermeneutical Approach. I cordially invite you to contribute to this book and help this work get published with your sharp critical acumen. To understand the nature of the work, you are requested to go through the synopsis given below. Without your valuable scholarship this project may remain a mere dream. If you feel interested in this venture, as I hope you are, please respond to this modest proposal as soon as possible. I positively look forward to hearing from you.

Synopsis

The book aims to explore, through diasporic texts, the multiple layers of cathartic experiences of refuge and migration. Migration invites a great hermeneutics, which creates and formulates shocking and surprising experiences in literature. Human mobility and migration are not a recent phenomenon. They are one of the survival strategies adopted since the dawn of human civilization throughout the history. Migration is the most important and natural phenomena leading to human progress and development. The term ‘Diaspora’ has appeared as on e of the key tropes in the modern Humanities today. It is the poetics of the displaced people across the globe. Diaspora, according to Judith Shuval, is a “social construct founded on feeling, consciousness, memory, mythology, history, meaningful narratives, group identity, longings, dreams, allegorical and virtual elements all of which play an important role in establishing a diaspora reality. At a given moment in time, the sense of connection to a homeland must be strong enough to resist forgetting, assimilating or distancing.” (Shuval 2000: 43)The process through which diasporic text comes into existence, is analogous with that of metaphor in two different ways i. e. its ‘sense’ and ‘reference’. Diaspora similarly has a referential sense of a cultural and sensical reference of the other, inside and outside both. In its making it appears to be cathartic, metaphoric and existential. One may, therefore, ask “whether the diasporic text is a cathartic metaphor of cultural and traumatic displacement of an ‘ethnic consciousness,’ ‘active associative life,’ ‘contacts with the land of origin in various forms,’ ‘real or imaginary’?”

The nature of diasporic discourse is metaphoric in nature as there is a ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ within. The resemblance view of metaphor brings the distant near and similar in dissimilar. According to P. Raghuram and A. K. Sahoo, ‘diaspora is defined not by biographical connectivity across geographical areas or political boundaries, but is created by and through differentiation.’ He further adds that ‘[it] is the contradictory emotions, the ambivalences in the diasporic notions of belonging, their identification with and against territorial social and cultural formations.’ Diasporic text appears to be an example of composed cross-cultural, intra-cultural and inter- cultural communication. It is cathartic in the process of its production and reception in reverse. The polyphonic nature of diasporic text is always fixed in writing. Diasporic discourse has the plurality of modes and similar is the case with metaphor; diasporic text comes into existence from the encounter between sense and reference as metaphor with muthos and mimesis. It’s a fact that ‘[the] concept of ‘diaspora’ and its geographical and territorial dimensions have all been subject to various interpretations.’ (Braziel and Mannur 2003). 

The concept of culture, trauma and Diaspora are now related to a ‘vast field of meaning that includes Global / Glocal processes of de-territorialization, transnational migration and cultural Hybridity.’ The book aims to throw light on the process of diasporic text through which it looks similar to the same process or consequences of the making of metaphor. The book would be an endeavor to focus on the cathartic dimensions of Diaspora as metaphor, as a new language and a new literature of home land and host land, as the symbol of continuity and change in Diasporic Community. The book may also cover the following sub themes:

Sub-themes

• Literary Text as Cathartic Metaphor / Representations of Diasporic Identities
• Migration, Diaspora, and Diversities / Globalization and International Migration
• Transnationalism and Globalization / Diaspora and Policy Challenges
• The Indian Diaspora in Britain / USA / Diaspora and Trauma
• Politics of Migration and Policies on Diaspora with implications for Foreign and National
• Security / Diaspora and Transnationalism / Diaspora and Gender Studies
• Cultural Practices and Formation of Imaginary Homelands
• Diaspora, Culture, Identity and Narrative Identity Formation
• Diaspora Studies within the Utopic / Dystopic Tension
• New Dynamics of Diaspora Engagement / Virtual Diasporas and Knowledge Platforms
• Indian Diaspora / Virtual platform and development / Migration and Culture
• Collective memory and myth about the homeland, including its location, history and achievements / Diaspora culture, Hybridity, Creolisation
• Refugee Crisis and Forced Migration / Diaspora discussed in recent scholarly articles, novels,
• films, short stories, poetry, travelogue, popular soap operas, documentaries
• Cross / Inter / Multi-Disciplinary travels in diasporic literature, films and theory

General Instructions
Authors should strictly ensure that the manuscript is plagiarism free. The manuscript should be prepared strictly as per the given guidelines. The editor may limit the contents/ make necessary changes in the article, if needed. Authors submitting manuscript written in English are requested to check their papers using any online free plagiarism checker .

We suggest using http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ to restrict plagiarism that is for free. If the paper / article is accepted, a copy right form will be filled accordingly.

Format of the manuscript Title (The following details must be centered just beneath the title: author’s
names, affiliations, email id and telephone/ mobile no. of each authors. Abstract (200 words) with 4-5 keywords. Proper Introduction Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements (should be in a single line) and References: In text citation of references should be done using MLA 7th edition  

If interested, please contact:

Dr. Mohammad Tariq (tariq faraz)

Assistant Professor of English

Coordinator Doctoral Studies & Member HRDC

Departmental Website Coordinator

Department of Languages (English)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Integral University, Lucknow India—226026 (India)

Email: lkotariqfaraz@gmail.com / tariq@iul.ac.in

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