Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture invites you to submit texts for the next issue (14/2022).

Dwelling and Belonging: Reimaginings and Redescriptions

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

(Issue 14, 2024)

University of Lodz, Poland

Co-Editors of the issue:

Prof. Ramsey Eric Ramsey

Dr hab. Małgorzata Hołda

The aim of this volume is to encourage wide-ranging discussions of the interconnections between dwelling, embodied (be)longing, and memory. We invite researchers in the fields of literary studies, philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of art, and aesthetics to explore the complex and versatile questions pertaining to those notions.

We are seeking manuscripts that explore the subtle and less obvious meanings of the traditional conceptualizations of dwelling and belonging in their relationship to human embodiment and the capacity for reminiscing. Therefore, we endeavor to reconsider the hermeneutic tensions that arise in the multifaceted and non-univocal understandings that are called forth by the notions of dwelling and belonging.

• The hermeneutics of (be)longingness, belonging together, reciprocity, and non-reciprocity;
• The poetics of openness and closeness, exteriority and interiority, inclusivity and exclusivity;
• Dwelling and the notions of (in)dependence and (inter)dependence;
• The humility of earthly dwelling: sedimentation, nomadism, diaspora;
• The realities and fantasies of liminality: challenges, temptations, limitations, and complexities;
• The opaque poeticality of thresholds: windows/doors/gates;
• Narratives of corporeal and mental entrapment, seclusion, cloistering;
• The idiosyncrasies of privacy, intrusion, and sequestration;
• The interaction of landscape (seascape, cityscape) and human habitation;
• The aesthetics of mise en abyme;
• Philosophies of space;
• Spatial representations of memory and post-memory;
• Longing, (be)longing and the quagmires of human (un)fulfilment;
• Spaces of refuge, retreat, and asylum: self-inflicted and communal isolation;
• Presence, absence, proximity, remoteness, and the multi-dimensionality of being an exile;
• Home and homelessness: the intimacies and entanglements of belonging;
• Home-seeking and home-coming: the hermeneutic phenomenology of home;
• The land of promise—imaginative dwellings and peregrinations;
• Crumbling, building, and sheltering: the narratives of rehabbing hospitality in the destitute time.

Submissions:

An abstract (max. 250 words) should be submitted as an email attachment to the issue editors:

malgorzata.holda@uni.lodz.pl and rer@asu.edu

In your email, please include your name, affiliation, email address, title of the proposal, abstract, five keywords and a brief bio.

Editors:

Dr hab. Małgorzata Hołda

Department of British Literature and Culture

Institute of English Studies

University of Lodz, Poland

Prof. Ramsey Eric Ramsey, PhD

New College & Barrett

The Honors College

Arizona State University

Phoenix, the USA

Important deadlines:

Deadline for submission of article proposals (max. 250 words): January 31, 2023

Deadline for editors’ acceptance/rejection of proposals: February 28, 2023

Deadline for submission of full articles (max. 6000 words): October 1, 2023

Deadline for peer review and final acceptance/rejection of articles: December 1, 2023

Deadline for submission of final versions of articles: February 1, 2024

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