invites articles for a special issue called /Anomalous Ethnographies:
Wild Wonders, Diminutive People and Reticent Races/, scheduled for
publication in fall 2012. We are seeking academic articles from any
discipline and period. Topics might include (but are not limited to)
Abatwa, djinn, elves, elementals, fairies, fauns, goblins, gremlins,
Homo Floresiensis, incubi/succubi, mermaids, mummies, Plinian races,
reptilians, Sasquatch, selkie, the undead, werewolves, wild men and
wild women, Yaksa, and such alternate forms of humanity, as
represented in anthropologies, fiction, folk-lore, media,
mythologies, sermons, travel literatures, and urban legends.
Contributions should highlight their cultural role or historical
significance in either popular narrative or academic discourse.
For more on the journal, please consult
Abstracts of 500 words are due on April 1, 2011. Final contributions
should be roughly 8,000 - 12,000 words (with the possibility of
longer submissions in exceptional cases), including all documentation
and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will
be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition
(style 1, employing footnotes).
/Preternature/ also welcomes original editions or translations of
texts related to the topic that have not otherwise been made
available in recent editions or in English.
Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed,
or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors:
Peter Dendle
Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, USA
pjd11@psu.edu
Kirsten C. Uszkalo
CIRCA Scholar
University of Alberta, Canada
circe@ufies.org
Richard Raiswell
Department of History
University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
rraiswell@upei.ca
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