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The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Fall 2016 issue, themed “Journeys: Literal, Metaphorical or Imaginary.” <br class="">
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Submission deadline: October 31, 2016.
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‘Journey’ is a word that evokes images and feelings of freedom, escape, newness, experience, and curiosity. Within English studies, a journey may be literal, requiring movement across borders and spaces; figurative journeys often develop the inner dynamic of
a character; and whimsical voyages, on the other hand, take place in the mind—the ultimate creative, uncharted territory. While the genre of “travel writing” has recently experienced a great surge of interest, JOSTES understands journey stories as wider in
scope than a particular literary genre; “journey” is at the heart of human experience, as literary characters and writers embark on transformative excursions within space and/ or within themselves.<br class="">
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The JOSTES editors are looking for scholarly articles between 5,000 and 8,000 words which address our theme: “Journeys: Literal, Metaphorical or Imaginary.” We encourage contributors to reflect on English Studies (both undergraduate and graduate) and themes
that reflect the idea of journeys, movement and travel. We encourage submissions from literature (American, British, or other literature written in English), linguistics, rhetoric, composition, literary theory, pedagogy and the English classroom, and academia
itself. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:<br class="">
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Literature<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• How have authors’ journey experiences (a trip/ vacation, migration, displacement, diaspora, and exile) shaped certain literary texts?<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• How does literature with a keen interest in “journey” discuss ideals of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship?<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• The literal, metaphorical or imaginary journey of characters within poetry and fiction<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Journey themes in children’s and adolescent literature: literal journeys, coming of age stories, psychological and intellectual and/ or developmental<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Close readings of published or archived travel-diaries/ travel-journals<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Travel Writing theory<br class="">
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Sociolinguistic<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Second language learning as a journey to a new multilingual persona<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Linguistic fieldwork as a journey to another place, culture, and language<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Language change as a reflection of community journey (for example, the rise of gender-neutral pronouns in response to society's changing attitudes)<br class="">
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Rhetoric & Composition<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• The rhetoric of journey stories (fiction or nonfiction)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• The writer’s metaphoric journey / writing as a recursive journey<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• The student writer’s metaphoric journey in the composition classroom<br class="">
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Pedagogy in the English Classroom<br class="">
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• We would also welcome an exploration of how an inter- or trans-disciplinary approach to English Studies and the English classroom symbolizes the concept of a journey<br class="">
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All submissions, including book reviews, must be original work and not be under consideration elsewhere.<br class="">
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Department of Public Affairs and Security Studies<br class="">
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