Call for Papers: "Speculating Exile: Literary Estrangements and Fugitive Belongings"
The foreigner, the exile, or the stranger have long remained fruitful lenses through which to interrogate national, cultural, and linguistic borders and their attendant politics and aesthetics, and the exilic itself has remained a dominant critical trope in disclosing new forms of relationality and social (re)production. Estrangement from home, from community, from self oscillates between contingency and agency, necessity and freedom, loss and desire. As literary scholars we are keenly attuned to the entanglements of text and territory, narrative and nation, aesthetic rupture and cultural norms. Exile speculates as much as it is speculated upon, smuggling in foreign imaginaries and proposing new and unsettling modes of being and relating. Minor literatures deterriorialize formal lineages and activate crosspollinating transnational networks, while fugitive belongings necessitate new representative strategies that collapse the borders of memory and fiction, history and speculation.
Pivot invites you to submit critical and creative work that explores how texts navigate the myriad pleasures and perils of the migratory and the exilic.
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