"genre," the journal published by the Associated Students in Comparative Literature and the Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics at Cal State University, Long Beach, invites young scholars, academics, writers and artists to contribute work that addresses the way literature and the arts depict, incite, criticize, and mitigate or instigate political conflicts throughout history with a particular emphasis upon contemporary cultures. Whether in regard to “war,” oppression, violence, or conflict resolution, the arts and the artist play an important role in interpreting and commenting upon social and cultural hostility and violence. We are particularly interested in the way artists and art engage real and surreal concepts of armed struggle.

Sample Paper Topics:

• Literary or artistic expressions of current or on-going conflicts.
• Representations of war
• Literature as a critique of social violence
• Artists inciting peace/anti-war
• Artistic incitement of revolution
• Post-colonial literature and emergent literature about conflict
• Artist involvement on the battlefield
• War narratives, from Classical expressions to contemporary
• Education/Academia and its relation to war
• The artist on urban warfare/urban terrorism
• Representation of border issues (ex: East & West Germany)
• Virtual violence and "war" in cyberspace.

Submissions may be made by e-mail (please use word or .pdf file formats) or by regular mail. Pieces of visual art can also be submitted.