UTOPIAAND DYSTOPIA –CALL FOR ARTICLES
Theacademic journal Meridiancritic (The Annals of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava,Literature Series) invitessubmissions for its first issue in 2010, dedicated to Utopiaand Dystopia.Man's perennial concern with bettering the world, as well as theanxieties at the potentially regressive nature of the utopian ideal –always attended by an indelible ambiguity –, has generated a wealthof creative manifestations, claimed variously by literature and thearts, by history, philosophy, sociology, etc. We are interested innew possibilities of research and interpretation offered by the richfield of the utopian imagination, with its shifting, indeterminateboundaries, and we welcome particularly approaches that explore theutopian impulse and the relevance of its representations in thecontemporary context of the postmodern sensibility and of culturalglobalisation.
Topicsthat might be taken into consideration:
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Utopia and ideology;
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From utopia to dystopia: continuity or break?
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The legacy of Thomas More: paradigms of utopian/dystopian literature;
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Utopia and children's literature;
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Utopian/dystopian visions in film and the arts;
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Utopia/dystopia as de/re/construction of a world: education, art, science, communication, power, etc.;
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Utopia, dystopia, and science-fiction;
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Utopia and the post-apocalyptic imagination;
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Utopia, dystopia, and the panoptic society;
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The “post-humanous future” – utopia, dystopia, and technology;
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Post-utopia;
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Ecotopia;
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Feminism and the separatist utopia;
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Consumerist paradises as escapist utopias.
Deadlinefor submission: 15March 2010.
Maximumlength of paper: 30,000 characters.
Wewelcome papers in English, French, German, and Romanian.
Pleasesend your papers, accompanied by a 5-7 line abstract, 5-7 keywords,and a short bio-note (all in English) to the following addresses:
corneliamacsiniuc@yahoo.com,otiliai@usv.ro