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The small town, the local, and regionalism have long been considered precious territory to be guarded by grassroots music and local art movements, enshrined in high letters, and embalmed in obscurity. This issue of LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland) seeks to challenge and update this notion of the regional. As the Internet connects us in a global village of downloadable ephemera, the local community is redefined. How does the region connect with the popular?
We are calling for academic papers, submissions of short stories and poems, and visual art that contemplate the intersection of the regional and the popular in Australia but also in terms of regional/global intersections more generally.
Academic papers might address issues such as:
Regional Writers and Popular Literature: transcending the obscure
Regionalism and the Internet
Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
Boundaries between High and Low in Regional/Global Culture
Regional Art/Identity and the Global Marketplace
Historical or Contemporary intersections of global, local, and popular art or literature
Submissions are requested in double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman, with MLA referencing, in Word .doc format. Please send files as attachments to the LiNQ editorial board care of
Victoria.Kuttainen@jcu.edu.au
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