Call for Papers: Special Issue on William Faulkner in Journal of the Short Story in English

Suggested Proposals

The purpose of this special issue of JSSE is thus to examine the challenges faced by Faulkner as a short story writer, especially—but not exclusively:

• the status of the short story in Faulkner’s work and its reception
• economic imperatives and consumerism
• experimentation and short fiction as “a creative writing workshop”
• Faulkner’s play with the traditional forms, conventions and contents of the genre: narrative technique, stylistic devices and strategies, punctuation and typography
• Faulkner’s phenomenological writing, his writing of sensation
• ellipsis and the unspeakable; condensation and proliferation
• Faulkner’s use of different chronotopes and his handling of chronology
• meta/short fiction and the mise en abyme of short story writing
• the Southern Gothic
• orality, cock-and-bull stories and tall tales, short fiction and humor, Frontier humor
• the ecopoetic dimension in wilderness short stories
• initiation in the short story and for the short story teller
• childhood and children as story-tellers and/or characters
• margins in the short story: the community and the individual; race and gender relations for example
• queer Faulkner