[Englecturers] FYI: Toni Morrison (9/1/05; journal issue)

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Call for Papers for Modern Fiction Studies

      Toni Morrison * Summer 2006
      Deadline for Submission: 1 Sept. 2005

In 1994, Modern Fiction Studies published a special issue focusing on Toni
Morrison, a timely project appearing just after Morrison won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1993. Since the publication of that special issue, Modern
Fiction Studies has continued to receive a large number of remarkable
submissions on Morrison. In the last decade, Morrison has completed her
historical trilogy with Paradise and published another novel, Love. She has
extended her impressive reach as author into children's books and an opera
titled Margaret Garner, based on the novel Beloved. Additionally, she has
continued to comment on social issues, following up her edited collection on
the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy with a 1997 collection of essays
devoted to the O. J. Simpson trial. To analyze more recent developments in
Morrison's oeuvre, as well as critical directions that have emerged since
1994, we will focus, once again, on Toni Morrison in our Summer 2006 issue
(volume 52, number 2).

We are especially interested in essays that interweave multiple critical
approaches or that examine Morrison's more recent work. Approaches to
Morrison that might be especially rewarding include exploring the
intersections of popular culture and Morrison (Oprah and Morrison, for
example, or Morrison as celeb author); analyzing Morrison as a global author
or public intellectual; tracing the claims of justice and/or reparations in
Morrison's work; examining Morrison using the framework of trauma studies,
queer studies, Marxist or postcolonial theory; or situating Morrison's work
in relation to other literary, intellectual, theoretical, or political
projects. This list is not meant to be exhaustive; any perspectives that
produce nuanced, richly situated readings are welcome.

Articles should range from 20 to 30 pages in length and should follow the
current edition of the MLA Style Manual. Please submit two copies of the
essay along with a cover sheet that lists author's name, essay title,
mailing address, phone number, and email address. Submissions should be
mailed to-

Editors, Modern Fiction Studies
Purdue University 
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN   47907-2038

Queries may be sent to the above address or by email to mfs at cla.purdue.edu.


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