CFP - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Proposals 1 Oct.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Adaptations, Histories,
Legacies


Call
for Book Chapters


Editor:
Randal Rogers


 


What accounts
for the ongoing importance of Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy in popular culture? First published in 1974, John le
Carré’s novel has
occupied an important place in the espionage imagination ever since,
with a BBC
television adaptation directed by John Irvin in 1979, BBC radio
broadcasts in 1988,
2009 & 2016, and a film directed by Tomas Alfredson in 2011. The first
in
the Karla Trilogy, followed by The
Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and Smiley’s
People (1979), Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy continues the critique expounded in The
Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) to focus upon, not the sexy,
triumphant heroism and techno-fetishism of the Bond franchise, but the
everyday
paranoid underbelly of the secret service. Many have discussed the links
between representation and reality as a structuring feature of both
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and its
author, who worked as a spy in his early professional life. Its central
character, George Smiley, pushed from the Circus (fictional British
intelligence
agency) only to return covertly to investigate a mole at the very top of
the
organization, is a type of anti-heroic Prometheus figure bringing light
to
humanity through forms of deceit. Surrounding Smiley is the unstable
edifice of
the espionage trade: changing notions of empires and nations as new
transnational forms appear; a spy trade being redefined within the
dynamics of historical
transformation; individual struggles for characters trying to make sense
of
their work and lives; nostalgia for times that modernity has subsumed in
the
name of progress; the increasing incursion of the security state into
new areas
of public and private life; the uncertain relation between truth and
deception;
and the search for a truth of which no one can any longer be certain. 


 


From
the time of its publication to its latest adaptation Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy has raised and negotiated key issues
related to both fictional and real contexts of espionage. Its ongoing
success
and currency reside in this adaptability. What happens as Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy is translated across platforms and
historical contexts? How have its adaptations worked with the novel’s
narrative
context or updated it for contemporary formations and audiences? In
short, why
has Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
remained vital for over forty years of production?


 


This
is a proposal for an edited collection based upon Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy, its adaptations and subsequent media (books,
television, film, fan cultures, etc.) from le Carré’s Karla Trilogy.
Contributors
will primarily consist of experts in the fields of literature, sound,
film, or
visual culture studies who have researched Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy and/or related topics (e.g. John le Carré’s novels,
spy media forms, adaptation),
but artists, fans, and students are also welcome. Topics may include but
are
not limited to:


 


            - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TTSS)
in the espionage thriller genre


            - Adaptations of TTSS for television, radio and/or film


            - Mise en scene in
adaptations of TTSS


            - TTSS and popular representations of spies and spying


            - TTSS and the counter-Fleming movement


            - Bureaucracy, procedure, and the
State


            - Technologies, techniques, techne


            - Conspiracy narratives in the Karla
trilogy


            - Secrets, confessions, paranoia, fidelity,
honour


            - TTSS and real spying


            - George Smiley’s career


            - Character studies of TTSS


            - Fan cultures


            - Memory and nostalgia


            - Femininities, masculinities, queer
sexualities


            - Race and/or class in TTSS and the Karla Trilogy


            - Early drafts of the novel and/or
screenplays


            - Empire, nation, transnationalism
and the geopolitics of the Karla Trilogy


            - The Cold War in TTSS


            - Real war, information war,
communication


            - Watching, seeing, listening and
the surveillance/security state


            - The double, reflection and
refraction, mirrors and windows


            - Time and/or space


            - Affective domains of TTSS


            - TTSS as a moral/ethical inquiry


 


Interested
contributors are invited to submit a 500-word proposal and a short
biography to
the editor by 1 October 2018. Selections will be communicated to
contributors
by 1 November. Final chapters of approximately 5000-7000 words will be
due by 1
June 2019, with publication planned for late 2019 or early 2020. Editors
of the
‘Espionage and Culture’ series at Routledge have expressed interest in
the
volume and a full proposal will be made once contributors have been
selected. Please
feel free to contact the volume’s editor (Randal Rogers) with any
questions or
queries. In addition, a quick expression of interest email would be
appreciated
by 1 September.


 


This
research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of
Canada.


 


Contact:


Dr.
Randal Rogers


[email protected]





Randal Rogers, PhD
Associate Professor
Creative Technologies +
Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies
Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance

University of Regina
Regina, Canada

'Truth to power, Norman'



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