The 2013 volume of Woolf Studies Annual will be devoted to the topic of Jews
and/or Jewishness in Woolf’s writing. We are less interested in the
question of whether or not Woolf herself was or was not antisemitic (except
insofar as this can be articulated in readings of her texts) than in how the
figure of the Jew operates within her work.
The special issue is not limited to work on Virginia Woolf herself, but also
will welcome contributions on Leonard Woolf, and on the Bloomsbury milieu.
In addition to full-length articles, we also envisage a forum of short
commentary, and an annotated bibliography.
Forum
We invite brief commentary of up to 750 words on a relevant short passage
from Woolf’s writing: for example, from the “Present Day” chapter of The
Years; “The Duchess and the Jeweller”; “Street Haunting”; Three Guineas;
Between the Acts, and elsewhere-there is no limitation on what you might
select.
Additionally, we welcome brief statements in response to the following broad
questions:
. How do Woolf’s representations of Jews compare with those of other
modernist writers?
. How have treatments of Woolf’s antisemitism/prejudice figured
within Woolf scholarship?
. In treating this topic within Woolf’s work, what are the salient
issues?
. What is the relation between her fiction and the extensive
biographical record of Woolf’s comments/ruminations about Jews and
Jewishness available in her letters, diaries, and memoirs?
A number of such brief commentaries and statements would then be shared for
response, and the opportunity for dialogue enabled, with the resulting texts
published as a forum on the topic.
Annotated Bibliography
Recommendations for previously published scholarship and sources on the
topic are also welcome and will be included as an annotated bibliography in
the special issue.
Deadlines
Forum commentaries/statements: June 30 2012
Full-length articles (8,000-10,000 words): August 30 2012-N.B. WSA
submission guidelines apply (see
<http://www.pace.edu/press/journals/woolf-studies-annual>
http://www.pace.edu/press/journals/woolf-studies-annual)
Annotated Bibliography recommendations: November 15 2012
(General articles on any topic may continue to be submitted for
consideration.)
please direct all correspondence, inquiries, submissions to
woolfstudiesannual@gmail.com