Ex-Centric Narratives:
Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Please submit your abstracts by December 31, 2024
for any of the following two parts
PART I
Theme: Culture War and/as Myth within and beyond America
Since the late 2000s, American politics has been increasingly spoken of in terms of culture wars, old and new, that they polarize the American public and often lead to full-on conflicts acted out in the streets or in courts of law, in the mass media or governmental and intergovernmental bodies. Post-2010s, we have witnessed cultural battles related to the #metoo and the Black Lives Matter movement, education, healthcare, the biotech revolution, and infrastructure policy, while more recent ones concern presidential elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and manifestations of the planetary environmental crisis.
But culture wars also feed into myth and the process of myth-making itself. Reception work on myth, within and beyond America, has been lending expression to culture war long before culture war emerged as an analytical category. Moreover, myth reception has come to involve a diverse array of approaches to and patterns of revisiting, treating, retelling, and rethinking myth.
Potential contributors are invited to critically discuss work on myth that originates in or otherwise involves America and that relates to past or present (supra)national culture war(s); reception work that either addresses, gives expression to, or question cultural battles shaping and reshaping America and its geocultural ambit.
Contributors may choose to focus on one or more of the following indicative topics:
Contributions: Length of abstract: 150-180 words.
Part II
Theme: Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
In Part II, we are open to original material that aligns with the scope and standards of our journal.
We accept a wide range of contributions in any sub-field of Anglophone Studies, as you can see from the list of topics below:
Potential Contributors are invited to submit their abstract on any theme that derives from the topics above.
Contributions: Length of abstract: 150-180 words.
YOUR ABSTRACTS for either PART I or PART II should include:
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PART I
PART II