Gender, Nature and Magic: Feminist Literary Perspectives on the Supernatural
We invite abstracts or full-length essays for a collection on gender,
nature and the supernatural in twentieth- and twenty-first century
fantastic literature. We are particularly interested in essays which
address spatial or geographic themes, tropes or critical approaches.
Fantastic literature has tended to inflect its concern with magic and
the supernatural by means of various kinds of imagined natural world,
landscape or ecology. This collection aims to explore the relationships
between nature and magic, gender and geography, as they have been
manifested in fantasy over the last hundred years.
Feminist geography - in the hands of Gillian Rose, Alison Blunt, Doreen
Massey and others - has made a major contribution to the humanities, but
as yet there has been comparatively little work using it to interrogate
literary genres and representations. We seek contributions that
demonstrate feminist geography's potential role in literary studies,
focusing on non-realist or fantastic texts.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- the women/nature/magic alignment in fantasy
- supernatural spaces: forests, hearths, caves, and others
- supernatural figures: magic-users, divinities, ghosts and others
- boundaries, public and private spaces, borders and spatial
transgressions in fantasy texts
- modern appropriations of traditional supernatural tropes and tales
- the relationship between ecocriticism and feminist geography in the
context of literary studies
- the fantastic as a spatial/feminist/ecocritical genre.
Please send 2-page abstracts or completed papers of 6,000-7,000 words
(using MLA style) as Word or RTF documents to Alice Jenkins
(a.jenkins@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk) AND Deneka MacDonald
(denekam@hotmail.com) by 15 April 2002. Please include a brief CV or
list of publications. We will be happy to answer enquiries sent to the
same addresses. Abstracts or essays in hard copy may be sent to BOTH
editors at the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Dr Alice Jenkins
Department of English Literature
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
tel. +44 (0)141 330 5296
fax +44 (0)141 330 4601
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