31.1710, FYI: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Poetry and Identity: Shaping and Sharing the Trauma of Displacement

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1710. Thu May 21 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1710, FYI: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Poetry and Identity: Shaping and Sharing the Trauma of Displacement

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn
Managing Editor: Becca Morris
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Lauren Perkins, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Joshua Sims
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 01:03:30
From: Lucie Houdu [lucie.houdu at ac-nantes.fr]
Subject: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Poetry and Identity: Shaping and Sharing the Trauma of Displacement

 
Vernon Press invite book chapter proposals on the theme: Poetry and Identity:
Shaping and Sharing the Trauma of Displacement

This edited volume will broach the topic of shaping a poetic identity through
the prism of a traumatic experience of displacement. How does the poet present
a disturbing personal history on the page? Coming from one place and being
forcibly moved to another also involves confronting a different language and
culture: how is such an occurrence translated to the page? Is poetry a space
where cultures and languages clash with one another, or does the expression
effect a reconciliation? How does this potential blend of languages and
cultural references (including code-switching and code-mixing) inscribe a
troubled identity, trying to reconstitute oneself via a poetic text? Could we
go as far as to say that, in an attempt to reconstruct a shattered identity,
the poetic body of the text may be a reflection and register of displacement
itself? And if so, how is the reader to respond? Is it visually (how is the
layout arranged? Are there any unusual elements or ruptures with the
traditional poetic codes?), or aurally (is the hearing tickled by any peculiar
resonance or repetitive patterns, for instance)? To what extent does sharing a
disrupted poetic text interrogate the very notion of Self and Otherness?

This volume aims to examine and compare poetic expressions from various times
and places, which can be multilingual, multimodal, and so on (poems from
volumes, blends of visual art and poems, performance poems, slam poetry, to
name just a few possibilities), and to examine how poets from diverse
backgrounds have tried to contextualize, re-shape, redefine, and/or resolve
their own traumatic experiences through different poetic expressions.

Possible contributions include (but are not limited to):

- Poetry and exile
- Poetry and migration
- Poetry and diaspora, diaspora studies
- Art, poetry and traumatic displacement
- Poetry and displaced communities
- Poetry and isolation
- Poetry and social-classes
- Poetry and dialects
- Multilingual poetry
- Multimodal poetry
- Poetry and outsiders
- Poetry and reception theory
- Poetry and genetics studies
- Poetry, trauma and identity

Deadline for proposals: 3 June 2020

How to submit your proposal: Please submit one-page abstracts/proposals to
Lucie Houdu luciehoudu at aol.fr, including a short biographical note.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature





 



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
               https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1710	
----------------------------------------------------------