CFP - Children's and Young Adult Fantasy Literature: Past, Present, Future
TAIWAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (TCLRA)
台灣兒童文學研究學會(TCLRA)
7th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
第七屆年度會議
CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT FANTASY LITERATURE; PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP)
An international one-day conference hosted by:
Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Fo-Guang University, Taiwan
Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA)
Date: Saturday, November 25, 2017
Venue: Fo-Guang University, Taiwan
Keynote Speaker: Professor Vanessa Joosen, Antwerp University, Belgium
The ability to fantasize, a creative faculty of the human mind, has been a rich source of so-called “children’s and young adult fantasy literature,” an umbrella term that covers a variety of genres like myths, folklore, fairy tales, fantasy stories, ghost stories, science fiction, time slip narratives, dystopian/utopian fiction, etc. From generation to generation, adult writers around the world communicate various visions of life, values, and desires to young readers through children’s and young adult fantasy literature. In the modern era of rapid social change and cultural transmission, children’s and young adult fantasy literature has generated new themes of works, diverse modes of artistic expressions, and even new generic features.
The conference invites abstracts for 20-minute presentations to explore any aspect of children’s and young adult fantasy literature. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical approaches to genres
- Crossover stories
- Time slip narratives
- Classic fantasy
- Contemporary fantasy
- Cultural/national identity
- Environment
- Ideology
- Gender
- Posthumanism
- Time/space
- Film/animation/theater adaptations of fantasy works
- Retellings of folklore, fairy tales, myths, and other fantastic narratives
- Fantasy in picture books and other visual texts
Important dates
14 February 2017: Abstracts Due
28 February 2017: Notification of Acceptance
30 September 2017: Revised abstract due for printing in the conference handbook
25 November 2017: Date of Conference
Please submit an abstract (300 words in English) and a short bio (50-100 words in English) to Chen-Wei Yu at cwyu@gm.fgu.edu.tw.