Call for Papers
Genre seeks essays for its special Spring 2002 issue:
Prisoners Writing: Discourse from Behind Bars
The focus of this special issue tackles the broad and compelling topic
of prisoners writing. Some 2 million Americans are currently behind
bars. America^s rate of imprisonment is the highest in the world. As a
vehicle to stimulate a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary
approaches to
the genre of prison writing and its social functions, the journal is
calling for historical perspectives on prison writings, both nationally
and internationally. In particular, the editor encourages essays on the
genre that highlight explicit concerns with the theoretical, literary,
institutional, gendered or political dimensions of discourse from behind
prison walls. We seek articles that include efforts to evaluate the
merits of previous approaches to this genre and compare them with those
more recent formulations. We will consider articles, essays and review
essays that explore prison culture from the prisoner^s perspectives on a
broad plane of issues. These perspectives include, but are not limited
to: the place in literature for contributions of prisoner writings,
classics of prison literature, inmate artistic cultural expression,
music driven by the culture of prison life both past and present,
international perspectives on alternatives to incarceration, immigration
and exile, resistance and riots, the American ^race to incarcerate,^
gender dynamics among inmates, staff and their families,
mothering/fathering from prison, disproportions of race in prisons,
youth in prison, mental and medical care issues for inmates, queer
perspectives on imprisonment, living with HIV/Aids, the wave of
privatization facing America^s prison^s today, exploration of the
boundaries defining global/national political prisoners, and historical
reflections on incarceration. Comparative and international studies on
any of the above topics are encouraged.
Printed manuscripts, in triplicate and accompanied by return postage,
should follow the MLA Style Sheet with notes placed after the text.
Critical articles should not exceed 10,000 words, and non-commissioned
book reviews should not exceed 2500 words. Deadline for submissions
is December 1, 2001. All correspondence regarding this special issue
should be addressed to:
Donna Rowe
Department of American Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
2125 Taliaferro Hall
College Park, MD 20742
(o) 202-371-0088 (f)202-289-7480
email: dr70@umail.umd.edu
(Email address for queries only; no submissions accepted in that form.)
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