<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS: For a prospective peer-reviewed cluster on the <i class="">Modernism/modernity </i>Print Plus platform </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">PEACEFUL MODERNISMS </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Editors: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Charles Andrews and J. Ashley Foster</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Contact: <a href="mailto:charlesandrews@whitworth.edu" class="">charlesandrews@whitworth.edu</a> and <a href="mailto:foster@csufresno.edu" class="">foster@csufresno.edu</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Modernist studies has long been fascinated with war. The violent international conflicts during the twentieth century gave creative energy to much of the art and literature produced in this period, from the destructive jouissance of <i class="">Blast </i>to the combative editing of Eisenstein’s films to the war-themed epics of novelists such as Ford, Hemingway, Waugh, and Pasternak. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” offers a particularly spirited endorsement: “We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.” Spurred by such proclamations, scholars have assiduously traced the relationship between modernism and war. Many essential critical works—including, recently, Sarah Cole’s <i class="">At the Violet Hour </i>(2012), and Paul K. Saint-Amour’s <i class="">Tense Future </i>(2015)—have demonstrated that the forms we associate with modernism were shaped by force. However, they also make clear that many of these aesthetic reactions to war were constituted by a concern for peace. Our interests are both scholarly and polemical, seeking to uncover the valuable resources of peaceful modernisms and to argue for peace and nonviolence. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">This proposed forum for <i class="">Modernism/modernity </i>Print Plus turns scholarly attention toward the many ways in which modernist art and literature of the long twentieth century engages with peace. From Yosano Akiko’s famous anti-war poem “Brother, Do Not Give Your Life” (“<i class="">Kimi shinitamô koto nakare</i>”<i class="">) </i>to Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1919 St. Moritz performance in defiance of the First World War, to Chinua Achebe’s “Civil Peace,” which offers a social critique in the wake of war, modernist art, literature, and theory enact rich but understudied practices of war resistance and peacemaking. As a case in point, Gandhi’s transnational impact, shaping the writing and activism of figures such as Rabindranath Tagore and Aldous Huxley, is more central to modernist aesthetics than is often recognized. This forum will put into conversation variegated and nuanced readings of pacifist thought in modernist form, exposing the complexity of art and literature’s engagement with peace work during a century of war. It also seeks to investigate how philosophies of peace and strategies of nonviolence circulated across borders and between modernist cultures. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">We especially seek proposals that use new methodologies drawn from interdisciplinary work in peace studies and literary/artistic analysis. Scholars such as Grace Brockington, R. S. White, and Jean Mills have shown how historically informed scholarship can also advocate for peace and develop resources for current antiwar and nonviolence practitioners. This <i class="">Modernism/modernity </i>forum desires to build upon such scholarship, understanding both pacifism and modernism “weakly,” approaching modernism as an aesthetic engagement with modernity that occurs throughout the world at different times, in order to expand the possibilities for integrating cultural analysis and peace research in the long twentieth century. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Topics for articles might include: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Theorizing the relationship between modernist studies and peace studies </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Modernist form and/as peace activism </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Globally circulating pacifist ideas and their appearance in modernist art </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Globally circulating modernist works and their pacifist messages </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Producing modernist cultures of peace </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- “Communal modernisms” and peace </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Modernists as peace theorists </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Theorizing a modernist pacifist aesthetics </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Intersections between modernist aesthetics and antiwar propaganda </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Modernism and antiwar internationalism </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Article lengths should be 2500-3000 words. Please email abstracts of 300-500 words to Charles Andrews and J. Ashley Foster by January 15, 2018. </div></div></body></html>