The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0016 Friday, 10 February 2006
From: Douglas Brooks <
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Date: Thursday, 9 Feb 2006 10:34:22 -0600
Subject: CFP: Shakespeare after 9/11
Shakespeare after 9/11:
MLA Special Session and Journal Issue
In conjunction with the theme of a future issue of the Shakespeare
Yearbook, "Shakespeare after 9/11" (Theme Editor, Matthew Biberman), the
journal will sponsor a special session at the upcoming Annual Meeting of
the MLA (Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006).
In the wake of the New Historicism, much critical work on Shakespeare
and his contemporaries has been faulted for its failure to develop and
deploy an active sense of historical self-consciousness. Such a failure
can be traced to a number of significant tendencies in historicist
methodology: the privileging of synchronic analysis over diachronic (or
recursive) approaches; the conviction that truth emerges as an immanent
entity within culture, one that can be teased out by the patient critic;
and (more fundamentally) the lack of interest in how meaning functions
across time -- what is often pejoratively labeled trans-historicist. Not
surprisingly, little has been done to think through what it means to
read and teach the literary production of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries after 9/11.
Shakespeare Yearbook hopes to fill this critical gap by seeking out and
publishing scholarly essays that take seriously what and how early
modern English literature means in a post-9/11 world - a world where
strangers can be terrorists, where a heavy coat can be the signifier for
a suicide attack or a briefcase can be a dirty bomb, where the
workplace, the daily commute, the shopping center, or even the theatre,
can be transformed in an instant into a site of mass suffering and
death. The journal welcomes scholarship that treats issues of religion,
violence, empire, and race in works by Shakespeare and his
contemporaries, especially in light of post-9/11 readings, stagings, and
films of such works.
To be considered for the MLA, please submit title and 250-word abstract
of proposed paper along with a brief scholarly bio by March 10, 2006 to
Douglas A. Brooks (
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). Digital submissions as e-mail
attachments in Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word only. Proposed MLA
papers must not exceed eight double-spaced pages in Times New Roman 12
point.
To be considered for Shakespeare Yearbook prospective contributors
should submit 250-word abstracts and brief scholarly bios to Douglas A.
Brooks (
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) by May 31, 2006
Digital submissions as e-mail attachments in Rich Text Format or
Microsoft Word only.
Maximum length for essays is 35 double-spaced pages in Times New Roman
12 point. Citations should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual
of Style. The name of the author/s should only appear in an
accompanying cover letter. All essays are reviewed anonymously by two
readers.
Douglas A. Brooks
Editor, Shakespeare Yearbook http://www-english.tamu.edu/pubs/sjb/
Associate Professor, Department of English
http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/brooks/
Faculty Coordinator, College of Liberal Arts Honors Program
http://clla.tamu.edu/lbarplan/
Texas A&M University
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College Station, TX 77843-4227
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