Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:05:24 -0500 From: Dina Georgis <dgeorgis-AT-YorkU.CA> Subject: CFP for Fall on Your Knees ALL 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 March 1, 2001 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-AT-carleton.ca or dgeorgis-AT-yorku.ca --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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