CALL FOR PAPERS: CANADIAN REVIEW OF AMERICAN STUDIES
SPECIAL ISSUE: FALL ON YOUR KNEES
GUEST EDITORS: DINA GEORGIS, SARA MATTHEWS, TRISH SALAH
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Canadian Review of American
Studies on Ann-Marie MacDonald's _Fall On Your Knees_.
Ann-Marie MacDonald's acclaimed novel, _Fall On Your Knees_, is a challenging
articulation of the power and perversity of desire in constituting and
disrupting cultural, racial, gendered and trans/national identities and
communities. Against conventional renderings of Nova Scotia as a culturally
isolated and racially homogeneous "New Scotland", Fall On Your Knees
centres a turn of the century Cape Breton mining town as a fractured and
fractious node in the circuits of early twentieth century migration,
capital and cultural exchange. Similarly, Fall On Your Knees complicates
the usual allocation of queer subjects to the privileged if liminal
confines of the modernist metropolis, embedding queer and gender
transgressive itineraries in a rich ecology of familial, community, labour,
ethnic, economic, national, media and diasporic relations, wending between
sites diverse as Cape Breton coal fields and Harlem speakeasys, the islands
of the Caribbean and the French trenches in the First World War, Jewish
Montreal and prewar Beirut.
We invite essays that takes up _Fall On Your Knees_ from a broad range of
theoretical, critical and disciplinary perspectives on such themes as:
Writing in the diasporas and national attachment; transculturation and the
Black Atlantic; multi-ethnic (Arab/Black/Gaelic/Jewish/etc.) Canadas;
trauma and narrative; narrative configurations of incest and miscegenation;
Queer and Transgender identities; social histories of Nova Scotia; Black
Canadian engagement with the Harlem Renaissance; cinematic technologies and
(counter) cultures of modernity; the Post-Colonial Gothic.
If you are interested in contributing to this special issue, papers should
be 4500 to 6250 words in length and employ the MLA citation style. Please
send two hard copies and a disk in Word or WP format by November 15, 2000
to:
Canadian Review of American Studies
Carleton University, Department of English
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1S 5B6
Attn: _Fall on Your Knees_ Issue
Further inquiries to cras@carleton.ca
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