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Shakespeare, Adaptation and Storytelling in Children’s Literature
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 1265 | Submission Open
Keywords: adaptation; Shakespeare; children’ s literature; narrative; storytelling; narrativization
The Thinker as Artist and the Artist as Thinker—Literature and the History of Political Philosophy
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 891 | Submission Open
Keywords: political philosophy; literature; literature and politics; poetry and philosophy; history of political thought; moral and civic education; justice and human virtue; ancient and modern texts; freedom and responsibility; constitutional liberty; interdisciplinary research
Neo-Slave Narratives and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture
edited by Justine Baillie
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 474 | Submission Open
Keywords: African American literature; Afro-diasporic culture and literature; neo-slave narratives; literatures of enslavement; colonization; decolonization
Echoes of Shakespeare: Intertextual Dialogues Across Centuries
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 597 | Submission Open
Keywords: Shakespearean adaptation; appropriation; intertextuality
On the Inconvenience of Metaphysical Absolutes: Representations of Sacred Violence in Literature
edited by and Luis Llera Cantero
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 2 | Submission Open
Keywords: political theology; aesthetics of power; sacrality; utopianism; thanatopolitics
The African Diaspora: Literature and Culture
edited by Johanna Garvey
submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open
Keywords: African diaspora; Afrofuturism; geographies and cartographies; resistance and revolution; abolition; environment and ecology; Glissant; Brand; Wynter; Fanon; Black and indigenous convergences; Atlantic world
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