[NIS_GS:] CFP: Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction (3/31/06; collection)

CFP: Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism in Irish Women's Fiction.

We are seeking articles for a collection focusing on transnational content and context in modern Irish and Anglo-Irish fiction by women.

Studies of Irish women's fiction published over the past decade have done important work by exploring the various relationships between gender and nationalism that Irish women have addressed in their fictional narratives. Extending and revising this significant body of scholarship, this collection will consider the ways in which issues of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism inform, enrich, and complicate fiction by Irish women. It will thus also address how traditional (and implicitly male-centered) rubrics of Irish nationalism and transnationalism have obscured or misinterpreted these
contributions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
a.. Transnational literature that recuperates cosmopolitan Irish identities formerly subsumed by nationalist paradigms
b.. Studies of how and where women's texts have challenged standard alignments of cosmopolitan or exilic mobility and modern or postmodern poetics
c.. Domestic spaces traversed by national and international figures, communities, and interests
d.. Texts that negotiate the interplay of transnational and Irish national identities
e.. Texts that explore the interplay of gender and transnational issues
f.. Globalization and Romance: remapping the gendering of form
g.. Travel writing/writing travel: Irish women on the move

While canonical figures such as Elizabeth Bowen are of particular interest, we are open to studies of any modern Irish or Anglo-Irish women authors.

Inquiries regarding this collection can be forwarded to the co-editors
by email: Kate Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College, sullivkp@lemoyne.edu
or Nels C. Pearson, Tennessee State University,
npearson@bellsouth.net

Editors request the submission of completed manuscripts, in duplicate, by March 31, 2006 to:

Dr. Kate Costello-Sullivan

Assistant Professor, Modern Irish Literature

English Department

Le Moyne College

1419 Salt Springs Road

Syracuse, NY 13214


Nels C Pearson
Assistant Professor of English Tennessee State
University
Dept. of Languages, Literature
and Philosophy
3500 John A Merritt Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37209
npearson@tnstate.edu
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