Special Issue for 2006
XXVIII:2
COOKBOOK

2006 will feature 'The Kunapipi Cookbook' - a special issue on the significance of food to cultural communication, clash and commerce in the history of imperialism, colonisation and postcolonial/de-colonising worlds. Scholarly articles might address the place and significance of food - the cultivation, preparation, cooking, eating, disposing and selling of food - in a variety of literatures (broadly conceived) - including fiction and nonfiction - colonial and postcolonial. Themes and issues addressed might include the history of trade in salt, sugar, cocoa, coffee, tea, spices, fruits, vegetables, seeds. . . How and why are food stuffs valued . . . The significance of food in painting and photography . . . The iconography of food. . . The recipe book . . . The recipe in literature and performance . . . Dearth and surfeit, starvation and gluttony, feast and famine . . . Food and ceremony - the ceremony and etiquette of food and food consumption . . . Food & Religion, Food & Philosophy, Food & Sex, Food sculpture, food installation, food as art . . .Please include RECIPES. Poetry and short fiction on the topic welcomed as are interviews with writers, performers, artists, photographers, chefs, publishers.

Deadline for submissions is 1st July 2006. Publication date Dec 2006.

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Special Issue for 2007
XXIX:1
BIRDS

Submissions on the significance of Birds to colonial/postcolonial worlds and world-views are invited for this issue. Scholarly articles might address the literary significance given birds in colonial and postcolonial literatures, the role of the ornithologist, ornithography, bird societies and cultures of bird-watching, painting and photography of birds, birds and dance, national iconography, use of bird mask and bird plumage in costume, clothing and material cultures - from indigenous and settler perspectives and practices, the place of the bird in museums, private collections, world fairs etc, birds and music . . . and much much more. I would like the issue to be wide-ranging, eclectic and multi-disciplinary. Lots of images please! Poetry and short fiction on the topic welcome.

Deadline for submissions is 1st October 2006. Publication date July 2007.

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Scholarly articles for the special issues 'The Kunapipi CookBook' (2006) and 'Birds' (2007)should be between 3,000 & 5,000  words although articles of up to 7,500 words are accepted if the subject justifies the additional length. Poetry, short stories, photographic essays and interviews are also invited. Kunapipi publishes images in b&w & colour; if sending images to accompany text please burn high resolution tifs to CD and send to the address below.

An abstract and brief bio/cv should be sent with your submission.
Contributions should be sent as an email attachment (Microsoft Word  or Rich Text Format) to acollett@uow.edu.au

Submissions are also accepted on disk (Microsoft Word or  Rich Text Format) with hardcopy sent to 
  
    Dr. Anne Collett 
    Editor Kunapipi 
    English Literatures Program 
    University of Wollongong 
    Wollongong  NSW  2522 
    Australia 

All enquires should be addressed to  the editor by email: acollett@uow.edu.au