REL: call for papers

The Revista de Estudos Literários is published annually by Coimbra University Press and the Centre for Portuguese Literature, a research centre funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). This journal focuses mainly on literary criticism and literary theory. Each guest-edited volume will be organized around a specific topic. The review section will give particular attention to new literary criticism in Portuguese.

Revista de Estudos Literários, Volume 11 (2021)
Editors: António Apolinário Lourenço (University of Coimbra) and Antonio Sáez Delgado (University of Évora)
Theme: Iberian Studies: Plural Dialogues

Despite the widespread commonplace that has insistently spoken, over time, of an Iberian Peninsula made up of two countries that are unknown to or purposefully ignored by each other, the systematic study of cultural relations between Portugal and Spain currently shows a very different map. The appearance, in the eighties of the twentieth century, of an academic field called Iberian Studies, either as a critical expansion of Hispanism, or as a specific subarea of ​​Comparative Literature, in conjunction with Area Studies, has proposed the reconsideration of the Iberian Peninsula as a complex system of historical and cultural relations. From this critical perspective, the Peninsula is transformed into a geo-cultural space with its own dynamic and tensions from an aesthetic and ideological point of view, which are manifested not only in the radial sense of the relations between the Portuguese and Castilian contexts, but in a more plural and rhizomatic sense, with deep flows between different centres and peripheries.

Proposals for articles may address, among other issues, the following topics:
1. Theoretical and methodological foundations of Iberian Studies;
2. Iberian literary dynamics: centres and peripheries;
3. Iberian literary relations: case studies;
4. Literature and ideology: hegemonies and subordinations;
5. Iberian literature and interart studies;
6. Translation as cultural mediation in the Iberian space.

Article proposals: a detailed proposal (c. 500-1000 words), including a bibliography, should be sent simultaneously by email to clp@fl.uc.pt, ant.apolinario@gmail.com and asd@uevora.pt. All proposals will be selected according to the Journal’s editorial policy. Selecting a proposal does not guarantee the publication of the final article. We accept articles written in the following languages: Portuguese (under the new spelling rules), Spanish, French, English, Italian, Catalan and Galician. The deadline for proposals is November 1st, 2020.

Articles: the deadline for delivery of completed articles (c. 6 000-7 000 words) is 30th January 2020. All proposed articles will be submitted to peer review. This issue is scheduled for publication in October 2021.

Schedule for Volume 11 of the Revista de Estudos Literários (2021)
Publication: October 2021
Call for papers: June 15, 2020
Submission of abstracts: November 1, 2020
Decision about abstracts: November 30, 2020
Deadline for submission of articles: January 30, 2021
Deadline for submission of revised articles after peer review: March 15, 2021