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Home / Publications / Periodicals / Scottish Literary Review / Call for Papers: Queer Form

Call for Papers: Queer Form

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW

Call for Papers

Special Issue: Queer Form

Edited by Darryl Peers (Manchester Metropolitan University) 

And Dr Zoë Strachan (University of Glasgow)

Scottish writing and queer theory are not often considered beside one another. This special issue of Scottish Literary Review invites critical discussion on queer Scottish writers whose work merits scholarly analysis in relation to a national context. Papers will offer interventions in contemporary queer theory in ways that, following the precedent set by Kadji Amin, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy Pérez’s ASAP/Journal issue of the same title, interrogate the formal and aesthetic qualities of queer Scottish writing.

We are seeking abstracts of up to 300 words. 

Paper topics could include but are not limited to:

  • Analysis of specific works and bodies of work, particularly but not limited to close readings of as yet little-studied writers. 
  • Fresh approaches to historical periods or genres.
  • New connections between established writers and their Scottish or queer context.
  • Situation of Scottish writers within international/transnational movements or trends in the literary industry.
  • Advancement of theoretical discussions made via analysis of Scottish texts.
  • Creative-critical interventions employing form in innovative ways. 

Abstract submission should include a brief biography and institutional affiliation.

Please email abstracts to queer@asls.org.uk by 15th August 2022. Successful contributors will be notified in September and expected to write papers in full by March 2023.

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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