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CFP: Chester Himes and His Legacy (CLUES: A Journal of Detection)
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-04-03 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-06-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
162745 |
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Guest editor: Norlisha F. Crawford (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
This special issue of _Clues_ will focus on Chester Himes, his Harlem series, as well as works by those authors who influenced him (e.g., Rudolph Fisher) and those who were influenced by him (e.g., Walter Mosley, James Sallis, Ishmael Reed). Theory-based analyses are welcomed. Thematic approaches to essays might include:
-- African American detective fiction’s relationship to racial uplift literary tradition;
-- feminist or female agency analyses, or other gendered readings, comparatively within works and between works by a variety of African American authors;
-- the modern civil rights movement as a contextual setting;
-- issues of class relations among the urban poor;
-- popular culture genres as literary study areas;
-- detection as a trope in African American literary traditions or works that feature African American characters;
-- the evolution of African American detective fiction over the past 50 to 100 years;
-- comparative study between African American detective fiction and other popular African American cultural forms, e.g. music, including the blues, jazz, R&B , or hip-hop/rap.
-- violence and racialized stereotypes;
-- evolving characterizations of the black male as an American hero;
-- comparisons with mainstream detective fiction, over time;
-- detective fiction as a pedagogical resource;
-- post-9/11 African American detective fiction; or
-- comparisons between African American police procedurals and private eye detection forms.
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and be between 15 and 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Microsoft Word with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the MLA Style Manual (3rd ed., 2008), including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized list of Works Cited. Please confirm that manuscripts have been submitted solely to Clues.
Submit two copies, plus an electronic copy on CD, to:
Margaret Kinsman
Executive Editor, CLUES
English Division, AHS Faculty
London South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd
London SE1 OAA ENGLAND
E-mail: kinsmam lsbu.ac.uk
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