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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Apologies for cross-postings<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Collection Call for Papers: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>Attached to Fiction: Trauma, Loss,
Pleasure</span></font></i><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Editors: Dr Hila Shachar and Dr <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Sophie
Sunderland</st1:PersonName>, English and Cultural Studies, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Western
Australia</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:36.0pt'><i><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>Mr
Sakamoto said that reading had saved his life. Not mathematics. Not money. Not
travel. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Reading</st1:City></st1:place>.
At a time, he said, when he felt blasted by images, words had anchored him,
secured him, stopped his free-falling plunge into nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:36.0pt'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-Gail Jones, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Dreams of Speaking</span></i> (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place>: Harvill Secker, 2006), p. 132.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>A survivor of the atomic
bomb, Gail Jones’s Mr Sakamoto expresses the inherent relationship
between literature, loss and trauma. Words that fail to mediate or reconcile
loss can also form fictional worlds that offer a particular kind of fidelity to
the troubling, incomprehensible event of loss. Attachments to fiction can
therefore be intensely felt and strongly defended as part of traumatic
experience. We are seeking 300-500 word abstracts for a book collection of
essays and short stories on how fictional narratives intersect with personal
narratives of loss and trauma. This collection also aims to explore the complex
forms of pleasure brought about by the attachment to, or creation of, fiction
during traumatic events, loss, or grief. Essays and fiction with an Australian
focus are particularly welcome. Specific examples of topics might include, but
are not limited to: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Family histories of
loss and trauma told in fictional form<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Identification with a
specific novel or character at a particularly traumatic stage in life<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- The use of reading and
writing as a therapeutic and cathartic experience<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- The
“pleasure” of fiction during periods of loss and trauma<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Writing through grief<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Reflections upon why
certain novels or narratives are particularly important during certain
traumatic events<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Fictional short stories
that engage with the themes of literary production, trauma and loss<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Personal narratives of
coping with trauma and loss through the process of reading and writing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Theoretical
perspectives on literary representations of trauma and loss<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Attachment as a
psychological and psychoanalytic model with which to consider personal
relationships to fictional characters and narratives<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Untold and forgotten
stories of local Australian and Western Australian traumatic histories<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- Parallels between
literary fiction and life experiences<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>- The traumatic
experience of writing itself<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>In the spirit of the
collection, we welcome both fictional and non-fictional short stories and
personal essays that engage with the primary themes of the collection. Essays
and short stories can be approached from any tone, from the humorous and
irreverent, to the serious and contemplative. While scholarly approaches are
also welcome, these essays and short stories should be in the style of creative
fiction and non-fiction. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Currently, Australian
author Gail Jones (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>) is
attached to this project as a possible contributor. We welcome abstracts from
scholars, creative writers, emerging and established authors, and others.
Please send abstracts and a short bio by 4th of October, 2010, to Hila Shachar
and <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Sophie Sunderland</st1:PersonName> at
attachedtofiction@gmail.com. Complete essays and short stories of approximately
3000-5000 words will be due on 31st of January, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=FR
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Contact email: attachedtofiction@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/attachedtofiction">www.facebook.com/attachedtofiction</a>
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Dr <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Sophie
Sunderland</st1:PersonName></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Honorary Research Fellow</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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