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<p align="center" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em"><strong style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"><em style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.625">Narratives from the South Pacific: Sociocultural explorations</em></strong><strong style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"></strong></p>

<p align="center" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">Editor: Farzana Gounder</p><p align="center" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">

Publisher: John Benjamins. Studies in Narrative (SiN) series</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">In the South Pacific, the fabric of culture is held together by the threads of narrative.  The construction of these narratives is of immense scholarly interest; however, until now, there has not been a scholarly work devoted to exploring the region’s linguistic and social contexts of narrative construction.  <em style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.625">Narratives from the South Pacific</em> seeks to address this need.  <strong style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"></strong><strong style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"></strong></p>

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">In recognition of the region’s linguistic and cultural diversity, chapters discussing the narrativization patterns in any of the following countries are particularly welcome: Australia, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rotuma, Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.</p>

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">Submissions should fit into one of these three areas:</p><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin:0px 0px 1.625em 2.5em;padding:0px;list-style:square">

<li style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625">Narrative structure and focus</li><li style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625">Manner of telling narratives</li>

<li style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625">Collective memory, cultural ideologies and narrative constructions</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">

Discussions must be tied back to ‘self’ and ‘identity’ in the South Pacific context.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">

 </p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">The book will appeal to anyone who is interested in how the act of narrative construction provides a site for the speaker’s identity negotiations.  For this reason, the book will be of interest to anthropological linguists, discourse analysts, narrative analysts, sociolinguists, and oral historians.</p>

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We welcome chapter proposals of 500 words. If accepted, you will be invited to submit a paper, which will be peer reviewed.  If your paper is selected, your final book chapter will also be peer reviewed.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">

 </p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:1.625em">If you wish to submit a proposal, please note the timeline, word length and dates in the table below and email your proposal to Farzana Gounder at <a href="mailto:fgounder@ipc.ac.nz" style="color:rgb(27,139,224);font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;text-decoration:initial">f</a>arzanagounder(at)<a href="http://ipc.ac.nz">ipc.ac.nz</a> (When sending email, replace (at) with @)</p>

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<strong style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625">Timeline</strong></td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

<strong style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625">Text length</strong></td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

<strong style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625">Dates</strong></td></tr><tr style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625">

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Chapter proposal</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

500 words</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

28 April 2013</td></tr><tr style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

Notification</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

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28 May 2013</td></tr><tr style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

Full chapter submission</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

5000-7000 words</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

28 September 2013</td></tr><tr style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

Notification</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

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28 November 2013</td></tr><tr style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

Final chapter submission</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

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28 January 2014</td></tr><tr style="color:inherit;font-size:15px;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625"><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

Notification of final acceptance/rejection</td><td valign="top" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625;margin:8px;padding:6px 10px 6px 0px;border-style:solid none none!important;border-top-width:1px!important;border-top-color:rgb(221,221,221)!important">

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28 February 2014</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br><div>Dr. Farzana Gounder</div><div>International Pacific College<br></div><div>Palmerston North</div><div>New Zealand</div><div><a href="http://farzanagounder.com/" target="_blank">http://farzanagounder.com/</a></div>

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