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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:51:35 -0800
From: James Adams <bunny-AT-ritchie.loop.com>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP:  SUITCASE submissions deadline extended!


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The  new deadline for submissions to Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural
Traffic has been extended to February 12th, 1998.

Suitcase publishes works on culture, history, and politics with a focus on
human rights and global studies. Suitcase features essays, critical
commentary, reportage, art, photography, fiction, poetry, film and book
reviews, and interviews with writers and artists from around the world.
Suitcase is especially interested in both academic and non-academic
articles that address a broader, more hybrid reading public and utilize
language accessible to readers throughout a wide range of disciplines.

Submissions for the current volume are being accepted now through February
12th, 1998. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 pages in length and should
adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. Color or B/W Photography and artwork
should be numbered, named and addressed. Guidelines are available on
request.

Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Traffic
2326 Murphy Hall
Box 951536
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1536
email: suitcase-AT-humnet.ucla.edu
telephone: (310) 836-0444/825-7690
fax: (310) 825-9754

Suitcase Volume 2 (376 pages, 60 B/W photographs) is an international
journal of world art and literature, featuring critical essays, reportage,
art, photography, poetry, and short fiction from both
established and emergent writers and artists from around the world. Working
in collaboration with human rights organizations such as PEN and Amnesty
International, the journal maintains a focus on cultural production under
conditions of siege by highlighting works produced despite and against
repressive regimes and conditions. Suitcase publishes scholarly papers
addressed to a broad audience
from the humanities and the social sciences.

Past contributors include Salman Rushdie, Samuel Weber, Mircea Eliade,
Jacques Derrida, Michael Heim, Susan Buck-Morss, Sergei Dovlatov, Sergei
Bodrov, Rene Depestre, Daniela Fischerova, Gilles Peress, Sebastaio
Salgado, Mike Davis, Alexander
Boraine, Diller and Scofidio, Seamus Deane, Rashid Khalidi, Barbara
Harlow, Teshome Gabriel
Zbigniew Libera, Andrei Condrescu, Mahmoud Darwish, and the winner of the
Nobel Prize for Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska.

Praise for Suitcase:

"A leading and innovative site of cultural and intellectual exchange."
Jacques Derrida, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

"Doesn't simply promise greatness, but achieves it."
Stathis Gourgouris, Comparative Literature, Princeton University

"Fills a crucial space by fostering an international dialoguethat
constantly poses and challenges questions of relativism and cultural
difference. "
Larry Siems, Freedom to Write Program, PEN Center USA West

"Its potential audience is considerable, both in the United States and
abroad.">Peggy Kamuf, Comparative Literature, University of Southern
California

"Everyone at NPR who has picked up Suitcase has been impressed by it."
Jacki Lyden, Senior Correspondent, National Public Radio

"Ranks with some of world's most exciting journals."
SAID, winner of the Gunter Grass Award for Poetry, Berlin

"Suitcase spells the future for the humanities, which can only grow if it
speaks to an increasingly diverse citizenry."
Gary Phillips, South Central Los Angeles writer and activist

"Demanding of attention."
Steve Wasserman, Los Angeles Times Book Review editor

"I like Suitcase a lot: it has severe ambitions."
Andrei Codrescu, Poet, NPR Commentator and Editor of Exquisite Corpse

"Suitcase easily contends with the best journals available, such as Granta
or Grand Street."
Soo Jin Kim, Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation

"Suitcase has created a new center of American intellectual life."
Peter Haidu, French, University of California, Los Angeles

"Astonishing in its content and professionalism, a vital conduit for
intellectual exchange."
Emily Apter, Comparative Literature, Cornell University

"A creative engine for international cultural production and criticism."
Patrick Geary, Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

"Suitcase resuscitates the idea of the public intellectual."
Vinay Lal, History, University of California, Los Angeles

"One of the wittiest, best designed, and most sophisticated cultural magazine I
have seen."
David Rodes, Director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts


Bad luck or anguish sustains the possibility of luck.  The same cannot be
said of reason (or, generally, of whatever impulses lead a person to give
up playing -- gambling, that is).
                               ---Georges Bataille






   

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