Call for Papers: Catastrophe and Representation

FACS Literary Journal
Florida Atlantic University Comparative Studies literary journal

Call for Papers: Catastrophe and Representation
Images of catastrophe increasingly assault us through the media. The world is reeling from the effects of war, natural disasters, famine, and disease. Violence - natural and unnatural - has become a standard motif in contemporary storytelling, cultural documentation and sociopolitical reportage. How, then, is such representation captured and characterized? What is being said and unsaid, and why? Is catastrophe a comparative experience?

The editors of the Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies literary journal invite submissions on any aspect of this topic for its Fall 2006 edition. Deadline for submissions has been extended to March 1, 2006. FACS is an interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for comparative study in the arts, humanities, language, culture and social sciences.

Possible topics include but are not limited to exploring representations of catastrophe as:
- natural and unnatural
- public and private
- iconic/symbolic
- identity (gender, race, class)
- performance
- literary critique
- media art
- rhetoric and communications
- discovery
- socio-political commentary
- synchronic / diachronic interpretation

Papers should be no more than 25 pages or approximately 7,000 words, and should follow the most recent MLA guidelines. A separate title page should include the author's name and address. The author's name should not appear on the manuscript pages to allow for blind review.

Send two hard copies and a CD of the manuscript to:
FACS Editor
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
P.O. Box 3091
Boca Raton, FL 33341-0991

E-mail submissions should be sent to facs_at_fau.edu . All electronic versions should be submitted in Microsoft Word.