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February 08, 2008
Call for Submissions
Revised & Extended Call: Call for Submissions (April 30, 2008)
South Asian (North) American Anthology
ANTHOLOGY DESCRIPTION & SUBMISSION DETAILS
Working Title:
Brown Souls: Voices of South Asian (North) Americans
Written and Edited by:
Roksana Badruddoja, Ph.D & Shikha Malaviya
Focus of Anthology:
The anthology will feature us, “second generation” South Asian North Americans (women, men, and other forms of identifications) from across nations about the ways in which we develop our identities. In this anthology, “second generation” South Asian North American refers to those who were either born in a North American country or "arrived" by the age of four, raised primarily in North America, and have at least one parent who was born and raised (until at least the age of 18) in the Subcontinent (Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar, and India). We are also considering submissions from those who fall under "1.5-generation" or people who arrived to North America after age 4 but before age 14, including multiple immigration sites. We consider North America to be made up of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and Greenland. We welcome submissions from people of South Asian heritage whose family emigrated to Africa, the United Kingdom, or elsewhere before immigrating to North America.
All submissions should speak to our identities as South Asian (North) Americans and how we create, maintain, and re-create our identities. Submissions should speak to multiple identities as South Asians, as Americans, as Canadians, as Muslims, as queers, as parents...and the list goes on and on.
The project is inspired by Dr. Badruddoja's dissertation, entitled "The ABCD Conundrum: What Does it Mean to be a South Asian American Woman?." The manuscript is designed to give voice to those silenced and marginalized. In this light, all work submitted will be given full consideration. You are the author; you tell the story that you want to tell about yourself and we want to hear about it!
Submission Guidelines:
1) There are no specific requirements in regards to genres and tones. We encourage and welcome all forms of written structures from bio-narratives to short fiction to poetry, including academic and non-academic pieces. Meaning, any and all forms of written formats and voices are encouraged. We also highly encourage visual art.
2) The manuscript follows in the tradition of the late Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004). Please make some time to explore her work before submitting your own (Borderlands - La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987; Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, 1989; also see http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit02/authors-1.html ). Here, we welcome the exploration of triumph, celebration, transformation, re-invention, struggle, reconciliation, retreat, and loss in the realm of on-going identity performances.
3) You may submit up to three pieces, excluding poetry, on MS Word with a page limit of 15 pages a piece at 10 point font size in Times New Roman. Authors may also submit up to five pieces of poetry (excluding the three piece limit) with no restrictions on word limit, meter, and other formatting (font requirements apply). This means that in total, you may make up to 8 submissions (5 pieces of poetry and 3 additional submissions in other genres).
4) Citation style includes Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) (see "Citations and References" at http://www.nwsaj.engl.iastate.edu/ )
5) Please provide a cover page for each submission, which lists your:
- Name; Age; and Region(s) of South Asia with which you identify and/or other core identity markers
- Title; A short description about how the piece came about (your inspiration)
- Contact Information: E-mail address; Mailing address; and Phone numbers
6) Submissions may be made electronically to Roksana Badruddoja (rokbad@gmail.com) along with two hardcopies of each individual submission to:
Dr. Roksana Badruddoja
Assistant Professor
Women's Studies Program
McKee Fisk Building, 217
2225 East San Ramon M/S MF19
Fresno, California 93740-8029
7) The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2008.
8) Submissions must be unpublished unless previously published work does not include copyright infringement issues.
9) Finally, and once again, submissions must speak to the development and maintenance of your identity as a South Asian (North) Americans. We believe such an identity space will allow you to consider gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, religion, culture, the colonial spirit, and a whole host of other identity markers you can think of, and how these areas work together to help define you as YOU.
If you have any questions about your submissions(s) and/or regarding the anthology in general, please do not hesitate to e-mail Roksana (rokbad@gmail.com) and/or Shikha (shikha@malaviya.com ).
Decision Notification:
This project is a long term project and we expect a 2-3 year time frame to completion.
This anthology is close to our hearts, and we are very excited about the project. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Peace,
Roksana Badruddoja & Shikha Malaviya
(rokbad@gmail.com & shikha@malaviya.com)
Posted by Sumita Sheth at February 8, 2008 01:11 PM
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