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From Wright to King and Beyond: Left Public Intellectuals in Times of
American War: International Perspectives
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Issue Announcement
Call for Papers
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
<http://reconstruction.eserver.org> is proud to announce the publication
of Vol. 8, No. 1, 2008: Class, Culture and Public Intellectuals.
Reconstruction now calls for papers that engage international and/or
internationalist Left perspectives on the "American Century," or that
consider the relevance such international perspectives have for our
current climate of ongoing "war on terror." Accepted contributions will
be published in a special section of Reconstruction 8.4, due out later
this year.
Reconstruction 8.1 was co-edited by Graham Barnfield, Joseph Ramsey and
Victor Cohen, and featured work by Matthew Abraham (forthcoming), Alice
Beja, Paul Buhle, Andrew Calcutt, George Ciccariello-Maher, Christopher
D. Craig, Charles D. Cunningham, Anthony Dawahare, Grover Furr, Brett
Gary, Amy Gentry, Marvin E. Gettleman, Mark J. Goodman, Rich Hancuff,
Paul M. Heideman, John Marsh, Carl Grey Martin, William J. Maxwell, Bill
V. Mullen, Robert Niemi, Marc Ouellette, James Panton, Paula Rabinowitz,
James Smethurst, Brian Thill, Robert Vanderlan, and Manuel Yang. The
issue also features interviews with Michael Denning, Barbara Foley, Bill
Martin, Ellen Schrecker, and Alan Wald.
2008 marks the centenary of Richard Wright's birth, and the 40th
anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. While both of these
major figures are often positioned as American public intellectuals,
their international vision seems to us especially relevant today. 2008
is a year which, for us, offers no end in sight to either the "war on
terror" abroad or the "war" on critical thinking at home. What relevance
does the thought and practice of this duo, and of other international
and/or internationalist public intellectuals of the mid-twentieth
century, have to contribute to our struggles in the twenty-first?
Following Reconstruction 8.1, we invite papers that address these and
related topics. In the spirit of the existing essays, reviews and
interviews in the March 2008 special issue, the editors propose rounding
off the year with further debate, analysis, and contributions to the
creation of a "humanscape" of the radical intelligentsia, furthering our
understanding of its lives, ideas, organizations, victories, and
misadventures.
We welcome responses to ideas outlined in Reconstruction 8.1, especially
contributions which commemorate and evaluate Richard Wright in his
centenary year. This could include essays of up to 10,000 words in
length, along with shorter "reconsiderations" of a wide range of
established or neglected works emerging from this milieu.
Please send proposals to Graham Barnfield
(gbarnfield_at_googlemail.com), Joseph Ramsey (jgramsey_at_gmail.com),
and Victor Cohen (victor.cohen37_at_gmail.com) no later than July 1,
2008. Publication is expected in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Consult the submissions guide
<http://reconstruction.eserver.org/guidelines.shtml> for further details
on format.
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an
innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an
intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting
them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most
important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary
studies. Reconstruction publishes one open issue and three themed issues
quarterly.
Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
All submissions and submission queries should be written care of
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