Update: deadline extended to 2/15
----Call for Submissions Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 2000 Special Issue: Ireland and Postcolonialism
Guest Editors: Caitriona Moloney, Bradley University Helen Thompson, Alabama State University Fred Sanders, Center for Irish Studies, Georgia Southern University
Pushed to the margins by the United Kingdom and "British" literature, Ireland appears once again to be marginalized within Anglophone postcolonial literature and theory. At times, scholars in Irish Studies and in Postcolonial Literature and Theory reject Ireland's candidacy for postcolonialism. Issues of race, color, economics and class can be seen to separate the Irish from India, South Africa, Nigeria, and the Caribbean--cultures less controversially considered postcolonial.
Yet, many of the important concepts of postcolonial theory--hybrid identity, dual language, exodus/return, collaboration/revolt, gender's double disenfranchisement--can be fruitfully applied across cultural borders.
In this issue we wish to examine the relationship of Ireland and postcolonialism by asking scholars to interrogate Ireland's position within [and without] postcolonial studies and to respond to the question "To What Extent is Ireland Postcolonial?" Hence, we are soliciting articles that examine the relationship of Irish Studies and Literature to postcolonial issues. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary examinations of race, gender, politics, history, culture and literature.
We suggest--although we are not limited by--these themes: ? The difficulty of reading Ireland as postcolonial ? Intersections between postcolonial cultures ? Identity/Race/Ethnicity: i.e. "whiteness" and "blackness" ? Colonial and postcolonial patriarchies and women's movements ? Postcolonial narrative theory ? Journeys: travel/exile/expulsion/return ? Collaboration: "The Big House" ? Metaphors and icons of nation
Please send three copies of your article (25 pages, MLA style) by February 15 to: Helen Thompson Caitriona Moloney Dept. of Languages and Literature Dept. of English Alabama State University Bradley University P.O. Box 271 1501 W. Bradley Ave. Montgomery, AL 36101-0271 Peoria, IL 61625 DrHelenT@worldnet.att.net cmoloney@bradley.edu
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