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Representations of Violence / Violence of Representation

Representations of Violence / Violence of Representation

Publié le par Alexandre Gefen

Representations of Violence / Violence of Representation.

Our Spring issue will be devoted to exploring the chiasmic relationship between representation and violence. We encourage graduate students to attend to the ways that cultural products such as art, literature, and film both manifest and perpetuate violence. Whether glorifying heroic violence as in La Chanson de Roland, sparking it as in Hugo's Hernani, or condemning it as does Picasso's Guernica, art is imbued with the violent zeitgeist of its period of creation. Additionally, there are ways in which the very act of creation effects violence. As Russian formalist Roman Jakobson put it, literature is "organized violence committed on ordinary speech." We invite graduate students from all universities and disciplines to submit articles that examine the intersections between representation and violence in French, Francophone, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American, and Italian literature, film, art, and popular culture from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Deadline for submission is January 15th. Guidelines for submissions can be found at the following address: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/romance/gra/workingpapers/submissions.html.
We welcome papers in English and in any of the Romance languages. We also invite submissions of digital art and multimedia representations that address this topic.