期刊名称:KRITIKA KULTURA
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
As proudly announced early this year in the Kritika Kultura website, a monograph and book series would be featured in the KK website.
Apart from the groundbreaking electronic journal and the lecture series, the KK Monograph and Book Series is an important and pioneering effort by Kritika Kultura to be at the forefront of scholarly e-publishing initiatives in the Philippines. The aim is not only to overcome serious constraints in scholarly publishing due to the financial pressures of mainstream presses, but to contribute to the much-needed production and dissemination of quality works especially among new scholars through online publishing.
The first of the monographs to be published in the KK website is The World, the Text, and S.P. Lopez by Rafael Acuna, a comprehensive critical study on the works of one of the most important Filipino intellectuals of the 20th century, Salvador P. Lopez. The monograph was first written as a master’s thesis in Literature (English) at the Ateneo de Manila University. Excerpts were culled from the thesis to write a journal essay which came out in Kritika Kultura No. 13.
The monograph studies Salvador P. Lopez’s position as a “secular critic” by analyzing his milieu during the Commonwealth period, criticism of his collection Literature and Society, and the content of essays from the same collection in light of the decades-long debate between “art for art’s sake” and proletarian literature among Filipino writers and intellectuals. The study uses Edward Said’s “secular criticism” as its main theoretical perspective in order to locate Lopez’s critical elaborations.
Several titles have lined-up for possible publication which are currently undergoing refereeing process. Kritika kultura welcomes contributions to the KK Monograph and Book Series.
Instructions to Authors
Contributions are now welcome for the first special exclusively literary issue of Kritika Kultura, the international online journal of language, literary and cultural studies published by the Department of English of Ateneo de Manila University. This issue is intended to be an anthology of new Philippine writing.
The Philippine literary community has a relatively longstanding tradition of releasing anthologies focusing on young writers. However, it can be gleaned that the notion of the “new” remains unarticulated, as recent anthologies simply focus on the “young,” and what becomes apparent is the persistent maintenance of an aesthetics solidified in various creative writing institutions and workshops, a notion that is rapidly rendered inaccurate by a healthy production of writing that these anthologies do not include.
What this issue of Kritika Kultura intends to accomplish is to represent the kind of writing that is rarely published, the kind that is not often legitimized by mainstream publications. The kind of writing that we, as editors, can confidently call “new.”
New, in this case, as the word that most succinctly describes literary texts that are mindful of—by way of formal response/appropriation and/or thematic confrontation—several cultural phenomena such as the preponderance of piracy, the simultaneous/schizophrenic sociopolitical conditions of the nation, the “new” government that includes so many of the old names, the highly provisional stances in criticism pertaining to society and art, the currency and increasing value of topicality and ephemera (as evidenced by BPOs, SEOs, and Facebook), the persistent dominance of celebrity culture, and the gossip paradigm of discourse. The anthology welcomes contributions that transgress genre boundaries, revise traditional modes and forms, formally engage with the largely oral, nontextual/extratextual literary practices of the Filipino audience, and display a technical alertness to the quandaries presented by blog-driven writing, Facebook fiction, protest poetry, the malleability of languages, the hegemony of academic publishing in “legitimate” literature, the dominion of western literary models, and, in light of these, the strategic and arguably fictionalizing construction of Filipino identity.
Contributions are welcome from Filipino writers who have not yet published books of their own. Submissions can be in any language, but English translations must be provided. Multiple submissions are accepted, but each submission (belonging to a particular genre) has a 5,000-word count limit. Submissions must not have appeared in national publications. When emailing submissions, provide a genre-label (such as Poetry or Nonfiction) for each. Submissions may be emailed to
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kk.litissue@gmail.com
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. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2010. The issue will be released in February 2011.
Editorial Board
Jan Baetens Cultural Studies Institute Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Michael Denning Yale University, USA Faruk Cultural Studies Center Gadja Mada University, Indonesia Regenia Gagnier University of Exeter, UK Leela Gandhi University of Chicago, USA Inderpal Grewal University of California at Irvine, USA Peter Horn Professor Emeritus University of Capetown, South Africa Anette Horn Department of Modern and European Languages University of Pretoria, South Africa David Lloyd University of Southern California, USA Bienvenido Lumbera National Artist for Literature Professor Emeritus University of the Philippines Rajeev S. Patke Department of English Language and Literature National University of Singapore Temario Rivera International Relations International Christian University, Japan Vicente L. Rafael University of Washington, USA E. San Juan, Jr. Philippine Cultural Studies Center, USA Neferti X.M. Tadiar Columbia University, USA Antony Tatlow University of Dublin, Ireland
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