UCLA Center for
East Asian Studies
REVENGE EAST AND WEST
Essays comparing revenge drama and its cultural contexts from Renaissance Europe and the classical theatres of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) are invited for a proposed anthology entitled Revenge: East and West, to be published by a major academic publisher. While the intended market is academic, language accessible to a multi-disciplinary, non-specialist audience is recommended. Papers should fall into one of three categories:
Comparative contexts for revenge: Exploring, in a comparative manner, the historical, religious, legal, philosophical, and gender-based contexts of revenge drama.
Comparative dramaturgies: Examining how different cultures have utilized similar (or dissimilar) structures, tropes, and elements for revenge drama: delay, disguise, feigned madness, reasons for revenge, means by which it is achieved, etc.
Cross-cultural revenge: Considering adaptations of classical revenge plays from one culture to another (such as Kanadehon Hamlet or Masefield's The Faithful), or filmed versions of classical revenge plays, or Asian productions of European revenge drama (such as a Chinese Spanish Tragedy or a Korean Hamlet), or Western productions of Asian revenge drama.
Style Papers should have a scholarly format, following the 14th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, including parenthetical citation and endnotes rather than footnotes. All Asian names should be given in traditional style with surname first and given name following. Uniform Romanization of names and words should also be followed, with Hepburn used for Japanese, Hanyu Pinyin for Chinese and the 1997 Ministry of Education guidelines followed for the romanization of Hangul.
Submission Interested scholars and artists are invited to email their manuscript (maximum 20 pages) by 1 August 2002 to sogagoro@hotmail.com Proposals, queries, abstracts, and requests for more information are welcome. Please email the editor at sogagoro@hotmail.com or wetmore@denison.edu or call (740) 587-6260.
Kevin Wetmore, editor. Department of Theatre & East Asian Studies Program Denison University