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Dear All, this might be of inerest to some of you A.R. --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:12:39 +0100 From: "S. Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Fw: fng-l: Call for Contributors Special Issue of SIGNS "Gender andCultural Memory" Sender: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Message-ID: <002601bfa186$1ea23620$0bd4a78f@gandalf> -----Original Message----- From: Karen Hagemann, ZIFG, TU Berlin, Germany <[log in to unmask]> To: FNG-L <[log in to unmask]> Date: 08 April 2000 16:31 Subject: fng-l: Call for Contributors Special Issue of SIGNS "Gender andCultural Memory" >CALL FOR PAPERS >(Please distribute widely) >Special Issue of SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY > >"Gender and Cultural Memory", co-edited by Marianne Hirsch >and Valerie Smith > >Although the reshaping of cultural memory and the inclusion of women's >works, stories and artifacts have always been the driving force of >feminist scholarship, it is only in recent years that feminist scholars >have been drawn to theoretical questions dealing with memory, trauma, and >transmission. Some of this work -- on autobiography and memoir, on >representations of war, exile and diaspora, on sites of memory and >memorialization, and on the traumatic memory of sexual abuse -- has >engaged gender issues specifically. But other areas of cultural and >collective memory, especially perhaps the politics of nostalgia, and the >memory and "postmemory" of the Holocaust, have been strangely resistant >to feminist analyses of gender and sexuality or to feminist engagements >with ideas of race, nation and class. As the interdisciplinary work on >trauma and cultural memory becomes ever more sophisticated and as >testimony acquires the status of an important literary genre and legal >source, a sustained theoretical inquiry into the connections between memoy >and gender has become more urgent. > >This issue will feature articles that examine different modes of memory >(personal and cultural, traumatic, "deep" and "ordinary," "embodied"), as >well as different theoretical models of memory, postmemory and nostalgia, >through a number of specific examples that will lend themselves to a >gender analysis. These examples can be literary, artistic, cinematic, >architectural, performative, ritualistic, or popular. They may reflect on >contestation, revision, forgetting, silence and amnesia in the shaping of >memory and postmemory, as well as on the more practical issues of the >preservation of memory in archives, museums, monuments and collections. > >The editors particularly seek essays that provoke a more general >conceptual and theoretical understanding of gender and cultural memory. > >The special issue editors are Marianne Hirsch (French and Comparative >Literature, Dartmouth) and Valerie Smith (English and African American >Studies, UCLA). > >Please submit articles (five copies) no later than January 31, 2001, to >_Signs_, "Gender and Cultural Memory,", >Public Policy Building, >UCLA, Los Angeles, >CA 90095. > >Please observe the guidelines in the "Notice to Contributors" >printed in the most recent issue of the journal. > > > > --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%