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Cradled in Caricature – CALL FOR ARTICLES

Cradled in Caricature

Call for Articles

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people;

people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

Ernest Hemingway

 

June’s Cradled in Caricature symposium (supported by The Graduate School) approached the notion of ‘caricature’ in its broadest sense, using it as a jumping-off point for a post-disciplinary discussion of exaggeration, stereotyping, representation, and characterisation. In light of these initial inquiries the forthcoming Spring 2012 edition of Skepsi intends to explore the following problems:

 

  • The tendency of societies and cultures to frame themselves within traditions of exaggeration and stereotype.
  • The ways in which art and fiction utilise caricature to convey meaning, and to what extent nonfiction uses the same processes.
  • The relevance of theories of political economy, psychology, and perception to this apparent desire of individuals and group to cradle themselves (willingly or otherwise) in caricature.
  • How to read caricature into social interactions without allowing the paradigm to be so ubiquitous so as to be meaningless.

 

Caricature permeates society. The consequence of this process can be seen in satirical cartoons appearing in newspapers, the perception of early colonialists towards non-European cultures, and the design of characters in Hollywood blockbusters. It is clear then that any discussion of caricature in communication, society and culture is suited to a multi-disciplinary arena.

 

Skepsi, the online interdisciplinary research journal, now in its fourth year and run by post-graduate students of the University of Kent’s School of European Culture and Language, invites articles on the above topic from academic staff, postgraduate students, and independent scholars. Any of the submitted articles selected by the Editorial Board after peer-review will be published in the forth-coming issue of the journal, to be published Spring 2012.

 

Articles, which should not exceed 5,000 words, should be sent, together with an abstract of about 250 words and brief biographical details about the author, to:

 

skepsi@kent.ac.uk

 

The deadline for submission of articles is 31 October 2011

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