NoticesStudies in Travel Writing: Special Issue on Travel in Anatolia, the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey Deadline: 1 Sep 2010
In 2012, the journal Studies in Travel Writing will be publishing a special issue on travel in Anatolia, the Ottoman Empire, and Republic of Turkey, co-edited by Gerald MacLean and Donna Landry. Offers of papers for this issue are now invited.
The issue will accept essays of around 7000 - 10,000 words. Submissions must deal with travel texts, but 'texts' may be broadly defined to include, among other forms, published books, unpublished manuscripts and documents, letters, diaries, journals, tourist literature, postcards, emails, and web blogs. Essays may address travel in any and all regions of Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire. We particularly welcome essays concerned with writing by Ottoman, Arab, Turkish, Asiatic, and African travellers of any period.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
* Travel criticism and theory in relation to Turkey
* Literary travels
* Tourism
* Comparative studies of pilgrimage
* Expeditions by land or sea
* Travel, spies, the 'Great Game'
* Walking or riding tours
The timetable is as follows: Abstracts of around 500 words by 1st September 2010; essays commissioned by end of October 2010; commissioned essays due by 1st October 2011; referees' reports by 10th January 2012; revisions completed by 1st April 2012; editorial process completed by end of July 2012.
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Replace [at] with the appropriate symbol in email addresses where applicable Filed under: Call for Papers - Publications Last updated: 10 Jun 2010
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