We are extending the deadline for our 2024 Call for Papers: "Speculating Exile: Literary Estrangements and Fugitive Belongings." The new deadline is October 25th, 2024. Pivot accepts critical essays, book and art reviews, poetry, creative non-fiction, and visual art. We look forward to engaging with your work!
Read More Read more about Call for Papers: Deadline ExtendedThe foreigner, the exile, or the stranger have long remained fruitful lenses through which to interrogate national, cultural, and linguistic borders and their attendant politics and aesthetics, and the exilic itself has remained a dominant critical trope in disclosing new forms of relationality and social (re)production. Estrangement from home, from community, from self oscillates between contingency and agency, necessity and freedom, loss and desire. As literary scholars we are keenly attuned to the entanglements of text and territory, narrative and nation, aesthetic rupture and cultural norms. Exile speculates as much as it is speculated upon, smuggling in foreign imaginaries and proposing new and unsettling modes of being and relating. Minor literatures deterriorialize formal lineages and activate crosspollinating transnational networks, while fugitive belongings necessitate new representative strategies that collapse the borders of memory and fiction, history and speculation.
Pivot invites you to submit critical and creative work that explores how texts navigate the myriad pleasures and perils of the migratory and the exilic.
Read More Read more about Call for Papers: "Speculating Exile: Literary Estrangements and Fugitive Belongings"Pivot is happy to announce our 2023 call for papers. Critical and creative submissions can be sent to us on the "Submissions" page of our website. For questions, comments or concerns, contact us at journalpivot@gmail.com.
Read More Read more about Call for Papers: Voyages: Traversing the White SpaceCheck out our lastest issue of Pivot! This new issue, "Somatic Cartography & Stories", features creative writing and visual art along side academic articles. The issue was created in collaboration with York University's English Graduate Student Association's annual 2022 conference and explores subjects relating to the various ways in which meaning is shaped in regard to the human body.
Read More Read more about New Issue is Out: Somatic Cartography & Stories: Mapping Meaning onto the BodyOur special issue, "World Fictions of Friendship in Critical Times" has offically been published!
Read More Read more about Check Out Our New Issue: World Fictions of Friendship in Critical TimesBelow is our offical call for papers for our Summer 2022 publication. Please make any submissions through the "submission" page on our website. For questions, comments and concerns feel free to contact us journalpivot@gmail.com.
Read More Read more about Call for Papers: Somatic Cartography and Stories: Mapping Meaning onto the Body