FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
From:
Donna L. Rowe <dr70@umail.umd.edu>
To:
Bruce Simon and Katherine Wills
Date:
Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:56 PM
Posted:
Wednesday, January 31, 2001 19:20 PM
Subject:
Subject: CFP: Prisoners Writing:
Discourse from Behind Bars (Dec 1, 2001)
Genre seeks essays
for its special Spring 2002 issue: Prisoners Writing:
Discourse from
Behind Bars
The focus of this
special issue tackles the broad and compelling topic of
prisoners writing.
Some 2 million Americans are currently behind bars.
America's rate
of imprisonment is the highest in the world. As a vehicle
to stimulate
a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to
the genre of
prison writing and its social functions, the journal is calling
for historical
perspectives on prison writings, both nationally and
internationally.
In particular, the editor encourages essays on the genre
that highlight
explicit concerns with the theoretical, literary,
institutional,
gendered or political dimensions of discourse from behind
prison walls.
We seek articles that include efforts to evaluate the merits
of previous approaches
to this genre and compare them with those more recent
formulations.
We will consider articles, essays and review essays that
explore prison
culture from the prisoner's perspectives on a broad plane of
issues.
These perspectives include, but are not limited to: the place in
literature for
contributions of prisoner writings, classics of prison
literature, inmate
artistic cultural expression, music driven by the
culture of prison
life both past and present, international perspectives on
alternatives
to incarceration, immigration and exile, resistance and riots,
the American
"race to incarcerate," gender dynamics among inmates, staff
and their families,
mothering/fathering from prison, disproportions of race
in
prisons, youth in prison, mental and medical care issues for inmates,
queer perspectives
on imprisonment, living with HIV/Aids, the wave of
privatization
facing America's prison's today, exploration of the
boundaries defining
global/national political prisoners, and historical
reflections on
incarceration. Comparative and international studies
on any of the
above topics are encouraged. Printed manuscripts, in
triplicate and
accompanied by return postage, should follow the MLA Style
Sheet with notes
placed after the text. Critical articles should not
exceed 10,000
words, and non-commissioned book reviews
should not exceed
2500 words. Deadline for submissions is December 1,
2001.
All correspondence
regarding this special issue should be addressed to:
Donna Rowe
Department of
American Studies
University of
Maryland, College Park
2125 Taliaferro
Hall
College Park,
MD 20742
202-371-0088
(f)202-289-7480
email: dr70@umail.umd.edu
(Email address
for queries only; no submissions accepted in that form.)
Donna L. Rowe
dr70@umail.umd.edu>
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