CFP: Language, Literature, Liminality (7/30/01; e-journal issue)

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Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 17:51:54 EDT

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    Journal for liminal phenomena

    Limen 2nd issue - Literature, Language, Liminality

    Rewriting, reconstructing, repronouncing, deterritorialization - these are
    highlighted values of contemporary literary theory whereas postcolonial or
    national.

    Hybridity, liminality, "interrogatory, interstitial space" (Location of
    Culture) - these are the positive values Homi Bhabha opposes to a
    retrograde historicism that continues to dominate Western critical
    thinking, a "linear narrative of the nation".

    Second issue of Limen - Journal for theory and practice of liminal
    phenomena (first thematic) will focus on the contemporary applications of
    liminal theories (in all existing or completely new meanings) into literary
    and/or linguistic researches.

    Some of topics may include questions of cultural identity, language of mass
    culture, Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "minor literature",
    contemporary mixture forms (like mestizaje in Chicano literature), use of
    language&literature as a tool in-between social control and rewriting the
    dominant codes, etc.

    The journal is also open to any article in cultural theory, a case study or
    review regarding the "in-between" subject or methodological perspective.
    The journal will be issued at least twice a year and is available via the
    Internet offering a worldwide distribution at no cost to the readers.
    Please refer to www.mi2.hr/limen or mirror site limen.mmc.hr for the first
    issue and further details.
    Once a year, in accordance to financial and other resources, a classical
    hard copy with selection of articles will be published. Every submission
    will undergo a peer-review by independent scholars working in the field.

    Limen aim to be interdisciplinary, so discipline-specific terms should be
    used sparingly and explained either parenthetically or in footnotes.
    Limen will not promote a unification of textual strategies proposed by
    Chicago Manual of Style or any similar set of internationally established
    rules.

    All submissions to Limen should be mailed to the editors as an attachment
    in MS WORD for Windows or Macintosh format to the following address:
    limen-journal@mail.com
    or to the personal mail addresses of Limen editors:
    Aljosa Puzar, aljosa.puzar@ri.tel.hr
    Igor Markovic igor.markovic@excite.com

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