The warmth of the hearth lies at the center of a cultural mythos that informs most views of technology, violence, and adventure. From military might designed to protect the home front to comic book heroes making the world safe for humanity, those charged with the development and use of advanced technologies are enmeshed in a domestic ethos that serves as the foundation and motivation for heroic (and villainous) actions. Ironically, the domestic sphere in these cultural forms is mutable, impacted and transformed in the face of the technologies that were designed to preserve it in the first place. We seek essays that consider these circumstances, and more particularly the relationships between technology and violence and between action/adventure and home in all genres. Treatments of popular culture and visual media are especially welcome.

This collection of essays will explore topics interest including but not limited to:

Technology and gender
Comic book heroes and the domestic
Violence and technology in children's literature
Heroic violence inside (and outside) the home
Violence in retaliation against violators of the home or family
The (in)compatbility of home life and action heroism
Domesticating the action hero or failures thereof
Military violence and home fronts
Depictions of domestic violence

Please send proposals by March 25th to lisadetora@hotmail.com and abelee@ncc.edu. Authors will be notified by April, with full papers of 5,000-7,000 words expected by June.