Ecozon@ CFP European New Nature Writing Issue 6.1 Spring 2015 Guest Editors: Anna Stenning (University of Worcester) and Terry Gifford (Bath Spa University and Universidad de Alicante) We have recently edited a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (17.1, Feb 2013), the ASLE UKI journal, on the New Nature Writing in the UK and Ireland, where nature writing in non-fiction prose has been flourishing over the last decade. We would like to explore in ecocritical essays what has been happening in wider Europe in relation to new forms and modes of representations of nature in the arts, including non-fiction travel, memoir, landscape and nature writing, but also including fiction, ecopoetry, painting and land art. What innovative forms of writing or arts are now replacing sentimental, racist or simplistic nationalist representations of nature? What would a comparison of ‘old’ and ‘new’ modes reveal about their strengths and weaknesses? How is nature being represented in writing, including documents that are concerned with planning, heritage or tourism? What terms are being used to categorise what in Britain and America is called ‘nature writing’? How do such modes of writing relate to national traditions and conventions, or to the European tradition of pastoral? Is there an urban nature writing? What new journals might be springing up to re-enagage with nature and what are the characteristics of their contents? What electronic modes of writing might be challenging conventional print modes of consumption of nature? Is the concept of nature itself being stretched to include forms of marginal ground, domesticated landscapes, or edgelands? What are the best theoretical frames for analysing new modes of nature writing? How is nature being contextualised now in the light of an economic/environmental crisis? Is there a gendered, class or postcolonial dimension to this writing? Is there a postmodern nature writing, for example, in the avant-garde modes of ecopoetry? If you are a writer of nature writing you might like to reflect upon your process and choices, perhaps using a case study. You might want to interview an innovative nature writer about their process, choices and reception through an edited email exchange. Articles should be typed double spaced, with references in the MLA style and footnotes (see Author Guidelines on the Ecozon@ platform). Manuscript length should be between 4000 and 6000 words. Eventual submissions should be made via the journal platform with a MS Word attachment of the document. Please note also that articles should have a broad ecocritical flavour and be informed, to some degree, by ecological theory. Although it is not essential, we would encourage potential authors to make prior contact with the editors through the submission of an abstract (approximately 500 words) in English sent as an attachment in Word document format along with a covering email giving your name, address and institutional affiliation and an indication of which of the five languages you intend to use. Articles can be submitted at any time up to end of July 2014 when the review process will begin. To discuss possible contributions contact Terry Gifford: [email protected]
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