[Amanda M. Smith]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Vox Latinx: Literature and Politics in the Twenty-first Century

Amanda M. Smith, Issue Editor

Alfredo Franco, Creative Editor

John Nieto-Phillips, Editor

Deadline: December 1, 2017

Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures invites scholarly articles and creative work that reexamine Latinx literatures in relation to our current political moment. The resurgence of white supremacist groups, the politics of immigration, and national advocacy by and for DREAMers and the DACAmented bring urgency to the reading, analysis, and teaching of Latinx literature. We welcome submissions that consider how Latinx literary voices from any time period shed light on contemporary U.S. politics. How have Latinx authors responded to vocabularies of inclusion, exclusion, or (be)longing? How have they shaped notions of citizenship, nation, borders, homeland, and identity? In addition to welcoming scholarly work, we encourage creative submissions in the form of short stories, poems, personal essays, visual work (including art & photography), and other mediums that address Latinx realities in the twenty-first century. Submissions may be in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous languages, or may involve translingual or polyglossal variations (i.e., Spanglish, Portunhol, Caló, etc.).

Topics may include:

• Citizenship, political activism, and ARTivism
• Community, nostalgia, longing, and belonging
• Multilingual and translingual narratives
• Translation and untranslatability
• Borders, migration, and exile
• Nations and post-nationalism
• Cultural and literary history
• Literary and artistic networks
• Genres, including: poetry, flash fiction, short story, autobiography, young adult fiction, science fiction, autoficción, graphic novels
• Recovered texts
• Approaches to teaching Latinx literature

For questions, contact chiricu@indiana.edu.

This topic was also posted in: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American, LLC Colonial Latin American, LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Luso-Brazilian, LLC Mexican, TC Anthropology and Literature, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TC Translation Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies, TM Literary Criticism, TM The Teaching of Literature, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English.

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