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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";color:black">A special issue of<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> ImageTexT</i> </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">This
is an important and timely special issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">ImageTexT</i>,
particularly given the current political and economic conditions in the DPRK. With
North Korea increasingly in the international spotlight and with news of the
imminent opening of Kaesong, a major industrial zone designated for
international trade, it is an important time to examine the cultural production
of the DPRK. Comics and animation, particularly when aimed at young readers,
offer a more transparent surface than cultural production aimed at adults.
Pedagogical and ideological content tend to be rather explicit, especially when
a text is used for propaganda, but these same texts offer insight into culture,
history, aesthetics, and worldview. Similarly, the reception of North Korean
texts by those living outside the country functions to shed light on our own
subject position as much as it provides insight into the North Korean cultural
imaginary. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">With
the Japanese manga and anime style having become the dominant aesthetic mode in
much of East Asia, it is valuable to look at the aesthetic approaches of a
country that has existed in a</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>relative
self-imposed isolation for the past half century. North Korea has developed a
language of comics and animation that is visually distinct and stands, both
ideologically and aesthetically, apart from the work produced by the other
major cultural centers of East Asia.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For this special issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">ImageTexT</i> we are looking for essays on topics such as adaptation,</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>translation, pedagogy, politics, aesthetics,
appropriation, and inter-cultural exchange. We are interested in close
readings, comparisons, deconstructions, and contextualizations. We welcome
essays from a variety of approaches from the historical to rhetorical analyses
of the semiotic codes deployed <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>in North
Korean popular visual culture.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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premier online scholarly journals on comics. Since it is not limited by the
economics of print media, there are few limitations on the images and animation
clips that can be included to illustrate essays. Since this will be a first
encounter with the DPRK’s comics and animation production for most readers, we
plan to include a generous number of images and clips. We are also seeking to
turn the contents of the special issue into a book collection. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">A
concise 250-word description of your paper should be sent to </span></span><a href="mailto:fenkli@newpaltz.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">fenkli@newpaltz.edu</span></a><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black"> and <a href="mailto:sboluk@ufl.edu">sboluk@ufl.edu</a> by July 1,
2010.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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