Banned Images. Exile, repression and censorship in artistic creation in the Iberian Space – 20th and 21st Centuries

On 27 and 28 April 2023, the II Biannual Congress "Banned Images" was held at the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), this time under the theme "Exile, repression and censorship in artistic creation in the Iberian space - 20th and 21st centuries". In view of the good outcome of this event and with the aim of continuing to contribute to the establishment of international networks of researchers working on the phenomena of cultural repression in the Iberian space, we are launching a Call for Book Chapters. The book will be co-published by GILCO – Grupo de Investigación en Literatura Contemporánea (Universidad de Alcalá), Centro de Estudos Comparatistas (Universidade de Lisboa), by IHA - Instituto de História da Arte (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and by CHAM – Centro de Humanidades da (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e Universidade dos Açores), and will have the scientific coordination of Ana Bela Morais, Bruno Marques, Cristina Somolinos, Cristina Suárez, Fernando Larraz e Isabel Araújo Branco.

Proposals should include innovative perspectives that contribute to the advancement of studies on censorship in literature, cinema and other forms of artistic expression in contemporary times, in Portugal and/or Spain. These investigations should relate to transnational issues or processes and cases concerning one of the histories, languages and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula, favouring an intra-Iberian comparative analysis and falling within one of the following thematic axes:

- Censorship and authorship in exile: forms of denial of artistic personality.

- Canon and censorship on exiled authors.

- Censorship, exile and gender.

- Self-censorship and exile.

- Censorship, exile and literary and artistic historiography.

- Exile, post-exile: the exiled generations and censorship.

- Censorship and phases of the reception of the work of the exile in domestic criticism.

- Motives, themes and characters of exile under censorship.

- Policies of purification and destruction of books: the emptying of the exiled tradition.

- Surveillance and repression of interartistic discourses in exile.

- Practices and policies of repression and exclusion in exile.

- Interventions and surveillance in the international book market and the participation of the exile in international publishing policies.

- The public and censorship: exile reception and taste formation.

- Comparative studies between the two Iberian countries on exile, repression and censorship.

Chapter proposals are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese and English. The guidelines for authors and the rules for submission and publication can be found on the webpage that can be accessed through which can be accessed through the link below. The author's identity, among other identifiable information, should be hidden from the text, as the proposals will be submitted to a scientific refereeing process under anonymity with subsequent peer review. Biographical notes (with a maximum of 100 words) should be submitted in a separate document. These documents should be sent in Word format to the following e-mail address: imagensinterditas@gmail.com

The choice of texts will favour proposals that stand out for their capacity for theorisation, innovation and originality. The texts must be unpublished.

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Important deadlines:

Submission of chapters: 30 October 2023.

Response from the Scientific Coordination: 30 January 2023.

Expected publication date: 30 April 2024.