CFP: [Collections] "From Solidarity to Schism: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US"

In a brief essay published in Parallax shortly after the 11th of
September 2001, Homi K. Bhabha refutes the reductionism of the “clash of
civilizations” explanation for the attacks in New York and Washington,
DC, and the downed plane in a Pennsylvania field offered by too many
commentators: “[T]he decision to implement and administer terror,
whether it is done in the name of god or the state, is a political
decision, not a civilizational or cultural practice.” Even as Bhabha
makes this significant distinction, his comments point toward another
question, necessarily subsequent to the events themselves: How have the
political events of that September day, as well as their aftermath,
affected cultural practice?

This edited collection, tentatively entitled “From Solidarity to Schism:
9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the United States,” seeks
to address that question through discussions of novels, short stories,
and movies from wide-ranging geographical sites of cultural production.
That is, the collection’s focus is on how writers and filmmakers from
outside the US represent September the 11th and any of the far-reaching
events that came about because of the attacks that day. Do these fictions
and films, as cultural practices, inaugurate new narrative or formal
devices in their efforts to represent the attacks and/or their fallout?
What manner of critique is offered, if any? Have these fictions and films
ushered in a new aesthetics of terror and its consequences?
        
This collection will be an important supplement to the US-centered
cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers
and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to
broaden their own examinations of related works.

Scholars in literary, cultural, and film studies, as well as related
disciplines, are invited to submit their work. Please send all inquiries
and abstracts of no more than 500 words (or full drafts of between 4000-
6000 words) to the editor, Cara Cilano, at cilanoc_at_uncw.edu by 20 August
2008. Complete essays chosen from the abstracts will be due by 1 November
2008. While the fictions and films may be in any language, the essays
themselves should be in English, as should any citations of primary and
secondary sources.

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