GLOBE call for papers - English version

[Erin Hurley, Prof.]

Please find below the English version of GLOBE's call for papers for its special issue on the performing arts in Quebec.  Apologies for the duplication.


Special issue : The Performing Arts  
Globe, revue internationale d'études québécoises

The performing arts constitute one of the most dynamic sectors of contemporary Quebecois culture.  For the past twenty years, the reach and the quality of festivals devoted to scenic practices (the Festival de théâtre des Amériques or the defunct Festival international de nouvelle danse) as well as the remarkable international success of companies like the Cirque du Soleil, Robert Lepage's Ex Machina, and the Compagnie Marie Chouinard eloquently attest to the place of Quebecois artists on the international scene. Parallel with these larger-scale performances are popular artistic traditions like stand-up and comedy shows that attract large crowds, as well as spoken word and performance art practices that circulate more locally.  

Despite substantial research on various aspects of the performing arts, there are few works that attempt to interpret the forms and the reasons for their present renewal while paying close attention to the practical dimensions of the performing arts.  With this in mind, Globe. Revue internationale d'études québécoises invites researchers of all disciplines and theoretical approaches to analyse the forms, places, institutions, historical roots, and contemporary transformations of the performing arts in Quebec.  We understand the performing arts expansively, from theatre in all its forms (mime, marionettes, performing objects, opera) to music, from storytelling to circus, dance to installation art, performance art to comedy.  

The special issue welcomes selective performance analyses as well as studies that address theoretical questions raised by the performing arts and that draw on interdisciplinary objects and perspectives.  For example, why does formal hybridity seem to characterise a great number of contemporary performance (i.e., dance-theatre, image-theatre)?  Or, while ideas of « performance » and « performativity » are increasingly present in scholarly work on cultural, national, and sexual identities, there are very few exchanges between those studies and studies concerning the art and practice of the performing arts.  Filling this lacuna could allow us to profitably reengage the question of the « Quebecois » or « national » character of these performances, and to take up the phenomena of their translation or international reception from a new perspective.  

Erin Hurley (McGill University) will guest-edit this issue.  Please send three (3) copies of your article (12 to 20 pages in length and in French) accompanied by a 100-word abstract to the Globe secretariat before 15 November 2006. Articles will be read blind by a committee of three scholars from Quebec and abroad.  

Revue Globe
Département d'études littéraires
Université du Québec à Montréal
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Montréal (Québec)
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Courriel de la rédaction: 
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Erin Hurley
Assistant Professor of English
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montréal, Qc  H3A 2T6
(514) 398-6573
 
 

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