MESTER

On Violence
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline Extended: February 15th, 2014
Mester seeks papers for its 43rd issue to be released in 2014. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American, Brazilian, Latina/o and Chicana/o literatures, linguistics, and cultures. Our upcoming volume will have two components: a general section, open to any topic related to the scope of the journal, and a special supplement entitled On Violence. The articles in the latter section may address cinematic, artistic, or literary representations and implications of violence within a variety of historical, geographical, and social contexts. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the struggle among Moors, Jews, and Christians in the Iberian Peninsula; the conquest of the Americas; the wars of independence; the institution of slavery; the Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War; the Portuguese Colonial War; the guerra sucia in the Southern Cone; the internal armed conflict in Peru; the drug wars in Colombia and Mexico; and dictatorial regimes in the Luso-Hispanic world; among other themes. Additionally, Mester welcomes manuscripts about gender violence, human rights, resistance to violence, and other interpretations of the topic. With On Violence, Mester also wishes to explore instances of linguistic oppression of minority languages, for instance, studies of the consequences of Proposition 227 in California, state campaigns against Catalan and Euskera during Francos dictatorship, or the struggles of indigenous movements to preserve Quechua in the face of the dominance of Spanish in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as other possible themes. Mester encourages article submissions from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and academic orientations, such as Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Ecocriticism, Transatlantic Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, etc. Articles may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Publication decisions are based solely on the quality of the submissions, which undergo a triple-blind review. For further information on our guidelines for manuscripts to be considered for publication, please see our website: http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/mester Texts must be submitted electronically via eScholarship: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/ucla_spanport_mester Please forward any questions to: Rafael Ramrez Mendoza, Editor-in-Chief, mester@ucla.edu

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

University of California, Los Angeles