8/12/2019 Mester-On Violence-Extended Call for Papers 2014

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MESTEROn V io l enc e

CALL FOR PAPERSDeadlineExtended: February 15th, 2014

Mesterseeks papers for its 43rdissue to be released in 2014. Mesterpublishes critical articles, interviews

and book reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American, Brazilian, Latina/o and Chicana/o

literatures, linguistics, and cultures.

Our upcoming volume will have two components: a general section, open to any topic related to the

scope of the journal, and a special supplement entitled On Violence.The articles in the latter section mayaddress cinematic, artistic, or literary representations and implications of violence within a variety of historical,

geographical, and social contexts. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the struggle among Moors, Jews,

and Christians in the Iberian Peninsula; the conquest of the Americas; the wars of independence; the institution ofslavery; the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War; the Portuguese Colonial War; the guerra sucia in theSouthern Cone; the internal armed conflict in Peru; the drug wars in Colombia and Mexico; and dictatorial regimes

in the Luso-Hispanic world; among other themes. Additionally, Mester welcomes manuscripts about gender

violence, human rights, resistance to violence, and other interpretations of the topic.

With On Violence,Mesteralso wishes to explore instances of linguistic oppression of minority languages

for instance, studies of the consequences of Proposition 227 in California, state campaigns against Catalan andEuskera during Francos dictatorship, or the struggles of indigenous movements to preserve Quechua in the face of

the dominance of Spanish in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as other possible themes.

Mester encourages article submissions from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and academicorientations, such as Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, EcocriticismTransatlantic Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, etc.

Articles may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Publication decisions are based solely on the qualityof the submissions, which undergo a triple-blind review. For further information on our guidelines for manuscripts to

be considered for publication, please see our website:

http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/mester

Texts must be submitted electronically via eScholarship:

http://www.escholarship.org/uc/ucla_spanport_mester

Please forward any questions to: Rafael Ramrez Mendoza, Editor-in-Chief,mester@ucla.edu

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

University of California, Los Angeles

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