Southern Literature

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

by Karen Soldatic

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
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Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

Disability and Colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities

Guest Editors: Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Karen Soldatic (University of New South Wales)

We are pleased to announce that we will be guest editing a special edition entitled Disability and Colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities on behalf of the established refereed journal Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

The aim of this special issue is to position disability within the colonial (the real and imagined), through which to explore a range of (often anxious) intersectionalities as disability is theorised, constructed, and lived as a post/neocolonial condition. While postcolonial theory and associated fields (e.g. critical theory, cultural studies etc.) have engaged with race, gender and ethnicity in the exploration of themes of identity, representation, space, historicity and the neocolonial, they have almost wholly bypassed disabled people- paradoxically limited to the subjectification of the able-bodied, or rather disembodying colonialism. Westerncentric fields of study such as disability studies often remain detached from the global South, the histories, contexts and cultures of these specific geopolitical spaces, and how disability is ontologically constructed and lived through a history replete with signifiers of power and empire and that frame the global. While some have adopted colonialism as a metaphor for the experience of disability (see for example Shakespeare, 2000), of colonized bodies by the medical profession, the colonial encounter per se, its creation of and implications for the disabled subject, remains inadequately theorised. In turn, disability is persistently removed from history and any contemplation of the post or neocolonial and efforts (discursive or material) at decolonizing these spaces and those within.

The special issue aims to transcend disciplinary, epistemological, methodological, spatial and historical boundaries. Engaging indigenous, post/neocolonial, disability studies, critical theory, psychology, Latin American Cultural Studies, and a range of other perspectives and literatures, and prioritising voices from the global South, we invite authors to engage in critical debate around colonialism to explore a range of thematic concerns (not exclusively):

• Colonial representations and the construction of the disabled body and mind
• The violence and disablism of colonialism
• Intersections of race, ethnicity, culture, gender and disability
• Empire and the domestication of bodies: globalisation, economics and beyond
• Disabled identities, metaphors and language, and their roles in subjugation
• From the colonial to the post/neocolonial: disability and contemporary lineages of imperialism
• Social identities and visions of disability
• Colonial medicalisation: identifying, labelling and ‘treating’ the disabled body
• The Christianising mission, biblical renditions and the disabled subject
• Decolonizing epistemologies, practices and lives: renegotiating power and contemplating global justice

We encourage authors to engage work on Southern theory and movements and approaches prioritising and promoting Southern epistemologies and counter-hegemonic knowledges emerging from struggles for justice.

Those wishing to submit an article, please email your full manuscript to both Shaun Grech (S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk) and Karen Soldatic (ajks123@bigpond.com). Please insert ‘Submission for Disability and Colonialism Special Issue’ in the subject line. Manuscripts will be sent anonymously for double peer review, and comments and recommendations relayed to authors through the editors.

Articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length, and include a 300 word abstract. The journal style guide is available here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1369-801X&linktype=44.

Manuscripts should be submitted by no later than: 1st January 2013

SSSL 2012 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (FINAL VERSION) [3:5:12]

by Daniel Cross Turner

"Hellhound on His Trail: Faulknerian Blood-guilt and the Traumatized Form of Lewis Nordan's _Wolf Whistle_"

by Ted Atkinson

SSSL CFPs (MLA 2013)

by Daniel Cross Turner

Chalk Lake: A Novel

by Johnny Payne

Bedfellows

by Johnny Payne

a novel

Valerie Martin's _Property_ and the Failure of the Lesbian Counterplot

by Amy K. King

Hope from Hopelessness: Finding Contemporary Southern Literature through Anne Tyler’s Use of The Sound and the Fury

by Amy Elliott

Presented at Southern Writers, Southern Writing Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. Jul. 2002.
Written at the University of Connecticut.

Critical debate focuses on the trend of Southern writers and the classification of their work within the tradition of... more Critical debate focuses on the trend of Southern writers and the classification of their work within the tradition of Southern literature. One side of the argument supports contemporary writers as part of the Southern literary tradition. That is, it proposes that contemporary Southern writers continue to write Southern literature not by writing with the same style and magnitude as Faulkner and Warren, but by basing their writing on this tradition and modernizing it. An excellent example lies in Anne Tyler’s use of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury as a foundation for her Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Through characterization and structure Tyler builds on traditional Southern literature to create contemporary Southern literature. By borrowing from Faulkner’s characterization of the Compson family, as each of the Tulls align with an equivocal Compson, and through her structure, which mimics Faulkner’s, Tyler continues to write in the Southern literary tradition. However, as much as Tyler’s characters align with Faulkner’s, it is precisely the differences in the characters, constructiveness and hope opposed to Faulkner’s destruction and hopelessness, that make Tyler’s work a piece of contemporary Southern literature.

Partial Annotation of The Sound and the Fury

by Amy Elliott

Presented at the Belmont University Research Symposium, 2001.
Written at Belmont University.

A partial annotation of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, this project focuses on the Quentin section,... more A partial annotation of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, this project focuses on the Quentin section, specifically, pages 125-145 of the First Vintage International Edition, October 1990. Annotations define and explain selected words and phrases from the text that are likely to be unknown, unfamiliar, or misunderstood by the average reader. This project examines linguistics, archaic words, and colloquialisms in some depth, while still including aspects of rural life (i.e. facts, folklore, customs, songs, and sayings); references to local history, laws, and customs; analogues; and various allusions and references. Further, it reflects extensive research drawn from literary criticism, numerous dictionaries and other reference materials, and linguistic text books. All entries are organized by page and line number.

Review essay of "How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature"

by Michael Newton

published in eKeltoi, 2006

Criticism of a book representative of recent efforts to "Celticise" the American South. Criticism of a book representative of recent efforts to "Celticise" the American South.

" The Nature of the Search": Popular Culture and Intellectual Identity in the Work of Walker Percy

by Jordan Dominy

Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse

by Valérie Loichot

Horse-Trade, Mule-Trade, Woman-Trade: Comparative Economic Geographies in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy

by Patrick Mooney

Given as a panel paper at the 38th Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference on 20 July 2011.

Literary Studies: The Southern United States, 2005

by Barbara Ladd

"'A Failure of Love': Racism and Original Sin in Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins."

by Adrienne Akins

"'Just like Mister Jim': Class Transformation from Cracker to Aristocrat in Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee"

by Adrienne Akins

"'We weren't laughing at them . . . We're grieving with you': Empathy and Comic Vision in Welty's The Optimist's Daughter"

by Adrienne Akins

"Southern Gothic Updated. Zerrbilder verstörter Männlichkeit im white-trash-Roman"[Distortions of Disturbed Masculnity in the White-Trash Novel] Amerikanisches Erzählen nach 2000: Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Hg. Sebastian Domsch. München: edition text + kritik, 2008. 256-282.

by Ralph Poole

Getting in Touch with the True South': Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee.”

by delia konzett

From Blue Ridge to Blue Sea: On Teaching a Southern Literature / History Travel Immersion Course

by Daniel Cross Turner