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Call for Papers: Modernism in 1911

The Journal of Modern Literature welcomes articles on various aspects of modernism in 1911. What was “modern” in 1911? What was “modernism” before the name had been coined? This question includes literature, with possible essays on the young Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Pound, Stein, as well as less canonical writers for the field of modernism (for instance, can Maurice Maeterlinck, the recipient of the Nobel prize in 1911, be called a modernist?). We also welcome essays on culture, politics, architecture and the other arts.

Please submit essays via e-mail to laurelwgarver@gmail.com, following the Advice to Contributors in the most recent issue of jml, no later than June 1, 2010.

Writing Slavery In(to) the African Diaspora

Special Issue: Research in African Literatures 40.4
Prompted by the bicentennial of the British abolition of slave trade, Research in African Literatures has trained its focus on both the literary and the cultural flowstreams that slavery blocked as well as the newer channels it opened up. It includes articles that show how to read both the tragic deformations that the slave trade nurtured as well as the creative triumphs that developed in spite of it.

Special Editors Adélékè Adéèkó, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, and Natasha Barnes

The table of contents includes these articles:

Writing Africa under the Shadow of Slavery: Quaque, Wheatley, and Crowther—Adélékè Adéekó

Chinua Achebe and the Uptakes of African Slaveries—Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi

Obstacles in the Way of Love: The Enslavement of Intimacy in Samuel Crowther and Ama Ata Aidoo—Laura Murphy   

A Legacy of Trauma: Caribbean Slavery, Race, Class, and Contemporary Identity in Abeng—H. Adlai Murdoch   

The African Oceans–Tracing the Sea as Memory of Slavery in South African Literature and Culture—Gabeba Baderoon   

The Middle Passage of the Gods and the New Diaspora: Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House—Brenda Cooper   

In the Shadow of the Castle: (Trans)Nationalism, African American Tourism, and Gorée Island—Salamishah Tillet

Africa and Its Diasporas: Remembering South America—Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Iranian Jewish Women

Cover Illustration: Parvin Schmueli Buchnik, “The Hands”

Special Issue: Nashim 18

Consulting Editor Farideh Dayanim Goldin

Research into lives and cultures of Iranian Jewish women is relatively new. Information gathering on Iranian Jewish life accelerated after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the mass exodus of Iranian Jews from their ancient homeland. Jewish existence in Iran, some researchers believe, dates back to the destruction of the First Temple, the Babylonian Exile, and the freedom granted the Jews in 539 BCE by the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great. Others assert that Jews settled in Persia (Media) earlier in two waves of exodus from the Holy Land in 727 BC and 721 BC, during the Assyrian rule. Even though Iranian Jewish population shrank from 100,000 before the Revolution to approximately 20,000 in 2009, Iran still hosts the largest numbers of Jews in the Middle East outside Israel.

The Islamic Revolution accelerated the pace of research, information gathering and recording data about the Iranian Jewish culture that many scholars feared could be soon lost. The resulting series of books on Iranian Jews do include some information about women, their lives, cultures, and lifestyle. They foster a sense of pride and appreciation in the earlier generations’ resiliency and cultural achievements

Examining this new scholarship, I personally have learned  to appreciate my own heritage, and to reclaim it. In my research and in my personal life, I now look for wonders of the Iranian Jewish life that had been bestowed upon me. Once, I believed that my grandmother Tavous was a superstitious woman because she was illiterate; now I know that her wisdom was beyond any formal education;  and I regret that I don’t have the knowledge of her herbal remedies. Through her recollections, she taught me the history of the Jews of Shiraz as well as the art of storytelling.

It is my hope that the collection of essays in this issue of Nashim, devoted to Iranian Jewish women, will intensify this  sense of connection and appreciation of Iranian Jewish heritage, that it will spark and intensify further scholarly work, and that it will help to create a network among the scholars of Iranian Jewish women.

Special Issue, Bridges 14.2: The Bridge of Translation

Special Guest Editor Faith Jones

Translations from German, French, Hungarian, Hebrew, and Yiddish, as well as essays about translation and reflections on particular translation projects, come together in this collection to illuminate feminist Jewish practice. Translated material includes stories, poems, letters, diaries, and fables in a rich blend of genres, styles, and subject matter. This diverse collection speaks to the centrality of translation for creating an inclusive Jewish feminist movement. It explores a variety of ideas about the historical pressures resulting from the multilingual nature of Jewish culture, with careful attention to how women’s use of language(s) is marked and meaningful.

For twenty years Bridges has published translations in nearly every issue; this issue's introduction highlights the reasons for doing so.The desire to bring a particular woman writer to light; to make our vision of Jewish life more complex; to engage with painful or important histories; to honor women’s knowledge and participate in the transmission of women’s knowledge; and to recover what has been dismissed, minimized, or hidden from view are some of the reasons being explored in this issue.

Writers whose work are translated include historical women such as German feminist Bertha Pappenheim; Polish Orthodox poet Miriam Ulinover; Soviet writer Shira Gorshman; Hungarian Holocaust survivor Borbála Szabó; and Brazilian writer Rosa Palatnik. Contemporary women include French novelist Marlène Amar; and Israeli poets Nurit Zarchi and Agi Mishol. A series of Holocaust-era family letters show everyday people struggling to find the language to reflect their lives. Essays by translators from German, Hebrew and Yiddish each discuss the specific issues related to the language they work in and to their translation practices in the light of Jewish feminism. Original poetry in English and visual art explore themes of language, speaking, listening, disclosing new worlds, and excavating meaning from wordless experience. Book reviews of recent translations highlight the variety and complexity of work underway in this field, and provide a starting point for those wishing to immerse themselves further in this fascinating, emerging area of study.

FAB 2010 Congress, Call for Panel and Paper Abstracts

The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers in the 2010 Congress. The Congress theme is "Mobilities and Inequalities".
Papers on any topic in feminist bioethics are welcome, although the plenary sessions and some of the parallel sessions will be devoted to the Congress theme.
The theme of Mobilities and Inequalities should be interpreted broadly. Topics may include, but should not be limited to:

·      Trafficking

·      Women, War and Refugees

·      Migration of Care Workers

·      Global Movement of Food and Food Security

·      Minorities and Barriers to Migration

·      Medical Tourism

·      Reproductive Tourism

·      Communication Technologies in Healthcare

·      Assistive Devices in Disability

The conference organisers welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including: philosophy, social sciences, mobility studies, gender and migration studies, development studies, and others. We particularly encourage submissions from early career researchers. For more information visit the FAB site, http://www.fabnet.org/announcements.php?announcement_id=31&from=congress.

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Gabeba Baderoon, The African Oceans—Tracing the Sea as Memory of Slavery in South African Literature and Culture, Research in African Literatures Dec 2009, Vol. 40, No. 4: 89–107.
 
Rita Falbel, Family Letters, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Oct 2009, Vol. 14, No. 2: 6–14.
 
Bahar Davary, Miss Elsa and the Veil: Honor, Shame, and Identity Negotiations, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Oct 2009, Vol. 25, No. 2: 47–66.
 
Martin Mhando, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Film and Trauma: Africa Speaks to Itself through Truth and Reconciliation Films, Black Camera: An International Film Journal (The New Series) Jan 2009, Vol. 1, No. 1: 30–50.

Ronald Broude wins Jo Ann Boydston Award in Textual Cultures

The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) announced on October 15th that its Jo Ann Boydston Award for 2009 has been presented to Ronald Broude for his article "The Gilbert & Sullivan Critical Edition and the Full Scores that Never Were." The award is presented every two years for an article that has been published during the preceding two years and that best addresses the aims and methodologies of sound documentary editing. Broude's article was published in Volume 3.2 of Textual Cultures, the journal of The Society for Textual Scholarship. It deals with the problems of preparing a full-score critical edition of an opera from a complex of sources, no one of which provides all of the necessary information. Broude expressed satisfaction that the award recognizes the unique problems posed by musical texts and that it has been presented to a piece in this relatively young journal.