{"id":1210,"date":"2012-08-16T19:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2012-08-18T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T17:45:58","slug":"call-for-submissions-word-images-a-norma-elia-cantu-critical-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2012\/08\/16\/call-for-submissions-word-images-a-norma-elia-cantu-critical-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Word Images: A Norma Elia Cant\u00c3\u00ba Critical Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although ethnography is defined many times as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the study of the Other,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Norma E. Cant\u00c3\u00ba it becomes the study of the subjective self and the others who relationally define the self.<\/p>\n<p>Author Norma E. Cant\u00c3\u00ba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing describes a border culture not only because it speaks Spanish, is bilingual and bicultural, and is mostly located in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, the U.S. and M\u00c3\u00a9xico, but also because it depicts a bicognitive reality. Sara Garc\u00c3\u00ada has pointed out that Cant\u00c3\u00ba writes about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the border from within the border,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d what Mary Louise Pratt calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the contact zone.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In her work, Norma E. Cant\u00c3\u00ba depicts the internal, moral, and linguistic borders that Chican@s cross continually throughout their lives in various and diverse manners.<\/p>\n<p>With its mixture of writing and orality, past and present, all mediated by memory, <em>Can\u00c3\u00adcula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera<\/em>, Cant\u00c3\u00ba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first groundbreaking novel, could also be read as testimonial literature if defined by Margaret Randall as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the possibility to reconstruct the truth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0We invite submissions on Norma E. Cant\u00c3\u00ba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oeuvre and vision, including but not limited to her criticism, folklore, theory, and literature, as well as her newspaper articles. We welcome academic papers about <em>Can\u00c3\u00adcula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera<\/em> and all other works authored by Norma Elia Cant\u00c3\u00ba, including poetry, short stories, opinion pieces, etcetera.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Please send submissions via email by January 1st, 2013 to: <span style=\"display:inline;unicode-bidi:bidi-override;direction:rtl;\" class=\"\">moc.oohay<span style=\"display:none;\">obfsctd-62b8a2<\/span>&#64;gnietsac<\/span>, especially if it is a heavy document, or a lighter document to: <span style=\"display:inline;unicode-bidi:bidi-override;direction:rtl;\" class=\"\">ude.uelttaes<span style=\"display:none;\">obfsctd-63bfab<\/span>&#64;greitug<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The manuscript should follow MLA style and be no more than 6, 000 words (about 25 pages excluding bibliography and notes).<\/p>\n<p>As part of your submission, include a brief (75 words) biographical note that includes: name, institutional affiliation and areas of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>ACCEPTANCES WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY MONDAY, February 18TH, 2O13<\/p>\n<p>Co-Editor: Gabriella Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez y Muhs, Seattle University, author\/editor of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas and Cultural Exile<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(Lexington Books, 2007).<\/li>\n<li><em>Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(Utah State University Press, 2012).<\/li>\n<li><em>Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena Mar\u00c3\u00ada Viramontes Critical Reader<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(University of Arizona Press, 2013).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although ethnography is defined many times as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the study of the Other,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Norma E. Cant\u00c3\u00ba it becomes the study of the subjective self and the others who relationally define the self. Author Norma E. Cant\u00c3\u00ba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing describes a border culture not only because it speaks Spanish, is bilingual and bicultural, and is mostly located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cfp","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1446,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2013\/03\/23\/call-for-submissions-reader-on-cantu\/","url_meta":{"origin":1210,"position":0},"title":"Call for Submissions: Reader on Cant\u00c3\u00ba","author":"Theresa Delgadillo","date":"March 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Word Images: A Norma Elia Cant\u00c3\u00ba Critical Reader Editor: Gabriella Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez y Muhs, Seattle University, author\/editor of: Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas and Cultural Exile (Lexington Books, 2007). 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