Memory and Women’s Studies: Between Trauma and Positivity

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the upcoming Special Issue Memory and Women’s Studies: Between Trauma and Positivity. The Guest Editors Irene Mizrahi (Boston College) and Claire Sorin (Aix Marseille University, LERMA, Aix-en-Provence) welcome humanities, especially literature, and art articles focusing on how memory and trauma studies have reshaped and been reshaped by women’s and feminist history, art, and literature since the 1990s. Countless research topics fit within the scope of this Special Issue, such as critical overviews of the recent scholarship examining the interactions between memory, trauma, and women’s studies—with a special focus on art and literature; papers examining the relationship between individual and collective gendered memory; the cultural, social, and political valances of portrayals of traumatic experiences produced by women; the dynamic interplay between past and present in local, national, and transnational contexts, and in processes of reparation, reconciliation, or inspiration; debates concerning public places, monuments, and statues as representations of women’s or feminist collective memory; the uses of both implicit and explicit memory in works of art and literature; the dynamics of remembering and forgetting and how this dynamic informs issues of power and hegemony; monologic versus polyphonic and dialogic constructions of memory and the importance of distinguishing between them; new media and its challenges for individual and collective memory. This Special Issue welcomes English-language articles considering a variety of transnational contexts. 

Aims

Literature (ISSN 2410-9789) accepts papers on the literature of all times and places. All kinds of approaches are encouraged, including the perspective of the literature classroom, the hospital, the prison, the therapist’s office, etc. We will consider relationships between high and low “literature” and other forms of the story in multimedia, social media, and even video games. We are willing to publish more illustrations than other periodicals. However, our focus is on literature per se, relegating theory, other topics, other media, and other disciplines to supporting roles.

Scope

• Literature and cultural studies
• Contemporary literature
• Women's literature and gender studies

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Submissions will be peer reviewed and published following “The MDPI Editorial Process”. Guest Editors will conduct the editorial process via the MDPI online Submission System (SuSy), and will accept or reject submissions, ask the authors for revision, or ask for an additional reviewer to read the paper after the peer-review process. 

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Histories.

Dr. Irene Mizrahi
Dr. Claire Sorin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Literature is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• trauma studies
• feminism
• gendered individual/collective memory
• processes of repara-tion/reconciliation/inspiration