Papers will be considered for presentation on the Creative Writing: Prose permanent section panel at the 2023 Midwest Modern Language Association annual conference in Cincinnati, OH, from 2–5 November 2023.
Tag: civil rights
In addition to the traditional forms of literature, this Handbook explores popular forms of writing such as comics, song lyric composition, and television and film script writing alongside political oratory, essays, and memoir.
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We invite articles, essays, and reflective pieces examining how various types of media, including news, cinema (popular, documentary, avant-garde, experimental etc.), television, digital, and social media shape the perception of the police through representation. We are hoping to receive contributions analyzing phenomena as diverse as the policing of black bodies (United States and Brazil), controlling populations in the name of drugs (Philippines), religion and ethnicity (South Asia, Israel and Palestine, Iran, Sudan, Turkey, Nigeria), gender, sexuality and family values
(Russia, Mexico, Argentina, Pakistan) etc.