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Call for Papers
Special Issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies
Multilingualism, Creativity, and the Arts

This special issue of CMS, to be published in spring 2019, invites submissions (scholarly articles, interdisciplinary essays, or mixed-genre pieces) focusing on the relationship between multilingualism and creative expression, as it is informed by theories or practices of multilingualism. 

Translingual literature is the phenomenon of authors who, like Samuel Beckett, André Brink, and Vladimir Nabokov, write in more than one language or who, like Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad, and Ha Jin, write exclusively in a language other than their primary one. Some writers, such as Marc Chagall--who was a prolific artist, wrote poetry in Russian and Yiddish, and famously used his mixed languages and alphabets in his artwork--exhibit creative versatility in multiple art forms. Like the great Chinese calligrapher-poets, 'metrolingual' artists (Jaworski 2014) use creative combinations of linguistic and artistic codes, genres, and multimodal dimensions in their text art (e.g. Laurie Anderson). Does translingual theory help us to understand what happens when an artist (of multiple media) --such as Jean (Hans) Arp, who moved among painting, sculpture, and poetry but also between German and French, or Breyten Breytenbach, who moves between fiction and painting but also among Afrikaans, English, and French--is also multilingual? 

Expressions of interest due May 1, 2018.
The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2018. 

View the full call for papers at https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-1089.html