Call for Papers: Special SFS issue on The New Wave.

From: Rob Latham [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:26 PM
To: iafa; [email protected]
Subject: [IAFA-L] CFP: Special Issue of SF Studies on the 1960s New 
Wave

The following CFP will run in the March 2007 issue of SF Studies. 
Please feel free to share widely.

CFP: Special SFS issue on The New Wave. By contrast with the 1940s 
Golden Age or cyberpunk in the 1980s, scholarly work on the 1960s New 
Wave, one of the most significant moments in the history of the 
genre, has been surprisingly sparse: aside from Colin Greenland's 
1983 monograph, The Entropy Exhibition, and a handful of scattered 
articles and book chapters, the movement has received little 
sustained attention from sf critics. As a result, conventional wisdom 
on the New Wave has hardly shifted in decades, basically amounting to 
a series of critical-historical truisms that cry out for further 
inquiry and examination. Was the New Wave a radical rupture with 
previous historical forms of sf, or did it continue a trend of 
stylish extrapolation inaugurated by the new magazine markets of the 
1950s? What were the precise connections between key New Wave themes—
e.g., "inner space"—and the advent of the various countercultures of 
the period? How enduring were the transformations, aesthetic and 
political, wrought by the movement's major authors?

 

This special issue of SFS proposes to address these questions, along 
with other important theoretical and historical ramifications of the 
New Wave movement. It also seeks to expand the familiar canon of 
1960s authors (e.g., Ballard, Dick, Ellison, Delany, Le Guin, etc.) 
who have received the lion's share of critical study to include 
significant neglected figures whose work helped define the parameters 
of 1960s sf (e.g., Lafferty, Malzberg, Spinrad, Wilhelm, Zelazny, 
etc.). And it encourages broad-based cultural studies of the New Wave 
that connect the movement with trends in the contemporary arts and 
popular culture.

 

Please send 500-word abstracts by June 1, 2007 to Rob Latham at rob-
[email protected].

 




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