36.2684, Calls: Journal of Literary Multilingualism - "Multilingual Literature in Conflict Zones" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 36.2684, Calls: Journal of Literary Multilingualism - "Multilingual Literature in Conflict Zones" (Jrnl)

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Date: 09-Sep-2025
From: Marianna Deganutti [mariannadeganutti5 at gmail.com]
Subject: Journal of Literary Multilingualism - "Multilingual Literature in Conflict Zones" (Jrnl)


Journal: Journal of Literary Multilingualism
Issue: Multilingual Literature in Conflict Zones
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2026

Zones of conflict are often at the center of multilingual creativity,
since writers themselves are frequently in the midst of wars and
migration chaos. Writing can serve as a crucial means of processing
these experiences. Finding a suitable language for this endeavor might
be challenging, given that many ethnic or military conflicts have a
linguistic dimension: the language of the colonizer can become a
target of attack during a struggle for national independence,
aggressor states can question the linguistic autonomy of a neighboring
country, or previously unified language zones can split into mutually
hostile idioms by political fiat.
Contributions to this issue might include, but are not limited, to the
following questions:
 - How are wars, ethnic clashes, and local or global crises depicted
in translingual texts?
 - How does translingual writing, in different genres, reflect war
zone traumas?
 - What aspects influence the language choice made by translingual
authors writing about zones of conflict?
 - What does it mean to write in the “language of the enemy?”
 - How do authors who abandoned their native tongue as a result of
political or military conflict become writers in a new language?
 - Can the creative use of different scripts reflect geopolitical
tensions?
 - How do multilingual literary works stage political conflicts on the
textual level with clashing linguistic codes?
In addition to scholarly articles, we also welcome book reviews,
interviews or short pieces of creative writing related to literary
multilingualism in conflict zones. Informal queries are welcome.
Please direct queries to Adrian Wanner and Marianna Deganutti.
Contributors are asked to submit an abstract by April 1st, 2026.
Articles should be 6,000 to 10,000 words in length, and the deadline
for their submission will be October 15, 2026. Acceptance of the final
versions of articles is subject to double-anonymous peer review.
Please send articles as email attachments to Adrian Wanner
(ajw3 at psu.edu) and Marianna Deganutti (mariannadeganutti5 at gmail.com).

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature




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