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>From:   "Susan Bainbrigge" <[log in to unmask]>
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>FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
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>Forthcoming Special Issue on ‘Autothanatographies’
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>Call for articles
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>Contributions are sought from scholars working in French, German,
>Russian, Spanish, Italian and English Studies for a Special Issue on
>the theory and practice of ‘autothanatography’. Within the context of
>the socio-cultural treatment of death (cf for example Baudrillard) the
>volume will focus more particularly on the ways in which death informs
>autobiographical practice. In this last regard, a recent comment by
>Jeremy Tambling in his study, Becoming Posthumous: Life and Death in
>Literary and Cultural Studies (Edinburgh UP, 2001) suggests that death,
>rather than life, informs our understanding and exploration of self in
>the present: ‘[i]t might be better if we started with the assumption of
>death working through the living, and not dissociated, therefore, from
>our sense of the present’ (p. ix). This Special Issue will thus explore
>the intersections between autobiography and death bringing together a
>wide-range of authors and texts from different periods and cultures and
>in the context of changing critical, literary and cultural
>perspectives.
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>Contributors may seek to address one or more of the following issues,
>though the list is not exhaustive: the autobiographical text as
>‘testament’; autobiography as defence against death; confrontations
>with mortality; negotiations of trauma (personal and/or collective);
>theorists on ‘autothanatography’ (eg. Derrida, Marin, Blanchot); death
>and the feminine (cf. E. Bronfen, Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity
>and the Aesthetic); writing endings; alterity in autobiography (death
>and the Other as unknowns); existentialist autobiography; the Death
>drive in autobiography. It is hoped that a variety of critical
>approaches will be represented.
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>Prospective contributors are invited to send a 300-word abstract as
>soon as possible and, at the latest, by 31 January 2004. Articles
>chosen for further consideration must be submitted in final form by the
>strict deadline of 31 October 2004. Articles should be around 5 000
>words long, including endnotes, and must conform to the FMLS
>stylesheet, which is available on request.
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>Informal enquiries are most welcome. Communications via e-mail
>are preferred, to [log in to unmask]; or write to Dr Susan
>Bainbrigge, French, University of Edinburgh, 60 George Square,
>Edinburgh EH8 9JU, U.K. Articles which do not find a place in the
>Special Issue will be considered for inclusion in general issues of
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>FMLS.

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