33.331, Calls: Ling & Literature / Journal of Literary Multilingualism (Jrnl)

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Subject: 33.331, Calls:  Ling & Literature / Journal of Literary Multilingualism (Jrnl)

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:47:40
From: Natasha Lvovich [natasha.lvovich at kbcc.cuny.edu]
Subject: Ling & Literature / Journal of Literary Multilingualism (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Journal of Literary Multilingualism 


Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2022 

War, disease, famine, political oppression, climate change, and individual
opportunity account for 280.6 million migrants in the world today. Although
most migrants are not writers, scores of writers find themselves adjusting to
lives as strangers in strange lands and adopting new literary languages. 

Issue 2/2023 of the Journal of Literary Multilingualism is dedicated to the
nexus between global migration and literary multilingualism. We welcome
contributions on diverse aspects of this interconnection and are particularly
interested in new, hitherto under-researched perspectives on the topic. For
instance, essays can examine the ways in which linguistic adaptation functions
as a theme within literary works. Or they can examine the ways in which
changing languages has shaped migrants’ literary texts through
translingualism: code-switching, hybridization, intertextuality, cross
cultural encounters, different forms of translation (including
self-translation), and other literary strategies. 

The focus can be on the work of contemporary migrants such as Edwidge
Danticat, Najat El Hachmi, Xiaolu Guo, Ha Jin, Aleksandar Hemon, Gazmend
Kapllani, Milan Kundera, Alain Mabanckou, Shirin Nazammafi, Emine Sevgi
Özdamar, Atiq Rahimi, Igiaba Scego, and Yoko Tawada. Or it can be on the work
of historical figures such as S.Y. Agnon, Mary Antin, Apuleius, Adelbert von
Chamisso, Erasmus, Kahlil Gibran, Maimonides, and Anselm Turmeda. These are
some examples; we are of course open to studies of authors who migrated at
other times and into other languages.

To contribute new perspectives to the topic of global migration and literary
multilingualism, contributions might include but are not restricted to the
following questions and topics:

- What is the writers’ aesthetic approach to their multilingualism? Do they
develop something like a multilingual/migratory poetics? Which literary
strategies do they apply (see above)? How (if so at all) do they transfer
migration and multilingualism into their literary works?

- To what extent can focusing on multilingual aspects of migrant literature
shed light on hitherto understudied aspects of migrant writing? Which
conceptual tools and theoretical frames can the study of multilingual
literature offer to the study of migrant literature, and vice versa?

- Which methods are best suited to study multilingual migrant writing? Which
methods should we include in our analysis (close reading, socio-literary
methods, anthropological methods, cultural studies etc.)?

- What questions do we need to consider when it comes to the production,
publication, circulation, translation, and reception of multilingual migrant
literature? How can this be related to debates about the national canon and/or
world literature? What role does academia play in this? Which place do
multilingual migrant authors have in university curricula?

We welcome informal queries, and potential contributors may submit an abstract
by April 30, 2022. Please direct queries to Steven G. Kellman (University of
Texas at San Antonio), steven.kellman at utsa.edu and Sandra Vlasta (Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität Mainz / Università di Bologna), sandra.vlasta at gmail.com.

The final deadline for the submission of articles of 6000-10000 words is
October 15, 2022. Acceptance of the final articles is subject to double blind
peer review. Please send articles as email attachments to Steven G. Kellman
(steven.kellman at utsa.edu) and Sandra Vlasta (sandra.vlasta at gmail.com).




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