Italian Fantastika: Re-Imagining Identity via the Speculative Fictions of the Italian Diaspora
CFP: Italian Fantastika: Re-Imagining Identity via the Speculative Fictions of the Italian Diaspora
Proposals due: July 22, 2022
Individual entries: Between 7,000 and 8,000 words
Subject areas: Italian Diaspora Studies, Speculative Fiction, Film and Media Studies, Comics Studies, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Speculative fictions, writ large, call on their readers to ask “what if,” to consider possibilities too difficult or too emotional for verisimilitudinous treatment. Wayne Booth and Martha Nussbaum have considered this potential an ethical strength of fiction–an ability to work out knotty or ...