<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>The Journal of Fantastic in the Arts is planning a focused issue on South Korean speculative fiction. The issue signals JFA's drive to broaden its horizon beyond anglophone SF as an ongoing initiative. The editors are excited to invite submissions - including original essays (across media) and book reviews. </div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely </div><div>Helen (Haerin) Shin, and Sang-Keun Yoo </div><div><div><br></div></div><div><br clear="all"><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Call for Papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Focused Issue Theme: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean
Speculative Fiction</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Focused
Issue planned for early 2023</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposal
submission deadline: May 31, 2022</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Paper
submission deadline: August 31, 2022</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> (<i>JFA</i>), published since 1988, is an
interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the fantastic in literature,
art, drama, film, and popular media. Published three times per year by the
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, <i>JFA</i>’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">articles are fully refereed, indexed in the MLA
International Bibliography, and searchable in JSTOR. The editorial collective
of <i>JFA</i> is currently working to make the journal indexed in SCOPUS and
A&HCI as well. In early 2023 JFA plans to publish its first focused issue
dedicated to South Korean science fiction and fantasy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">South Korean speculative fiction has a long and
rich yet also conflicted history that spans over a century. Building on the
legacy of the fantastic in premodern literature while also struggling with
colonial drives toward the inculcation of science-technology (<i>kwahak kisul</i>
– a compound term devised and systematically promoted as a state-led initiative
on industrial development and lifestyle management), creators and readers of
Korean science fiction have sought diverse pathways to negotiate the anxiety of
influence through critical reappropriation. <i>Taeguek Hakbo</i>’s publication
of Jules Verne’s <i>20,000 Leagues under the Sea </i>(trans. 1907) for instance
introduced and framed modern technology as the momentum of progress, whereas
Kim Dong-yin’s short story “Dr. K’s Research” (1929) highlighted the limits of
a scientific frame of reference through irony. Despite pressures to focus on
the problems of the here and now in the form of critical realism, speculative
narratives persisted across the mediasphere throughout the turmoil of the
Korean War and compressed development; creature/cult/horror films served as an
outlet for quirky imaginaries in the ‘60s~’70s, while the comics magazine
culture offered a fertile ground for science fiction narratives throughout the
‘80s~early ’90s. The film industry has also embraced speculative tropes as
inspiration for hybrid aesthetics after an initial period of struggle (marked
by a slew of unsuccessful blockbusters in the early 2000s); television dramas,
streaming media, and webtoons are actively embracing the genre as the source of
creative momentum; and videogames, in particular, are thriving in the land of
the fantastic. In the domain of written literature, fantasy spearheaded the
break from the longstanding tradition of critical realism in pace with South
Korea’s economic and political stabilization in the ‘90s, and science fiction
has become the nursery of feminist breakthroughs to attract global attention
over the past decade – an ever-peculiar (yet all the more welcome) state of
affairs given the predominantly masculine vector of the genre’s history, paired
with the patriarchic underpinning of the <i>kwahak kisul </i>paradigm. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Even as megahit productions such as <i>Snowpiercer</i>
(2013), <i>Train to Busan</i> (2016), <i>Space Sweepers</i> (2021), <i>The
Silent Sea </i>(2021), and <i>All of Us Are Dead</i> (2022) continue to draw a
global viewership, scholarship on South Korean speculative fiction within
anglophone academia has been extremely sparse. To address this gap, the editors
of this focused <i>JFA </i>issue shed timely and much-needed light on the
subject across diverse media. The goal is not to catalogue the genre’s history
in South Korea; rather, focus will be laid upon how South Korean speculative
fiction writers and creators reverse-engineer the Western concept of modernity
through reappropriative maneuvers, taking a deep-dive into the socio-cultural and
historical frameworks as innovative aesthetic and discursive ventures. Hence
the title, <i>Newtrospection</i>. <i>Newtro</i> refers to a new aesthetic trend
in South Korea, which involves reviving and appreciating aesthetic trends from
the past. The distinction between <i>retro</i> and <i>newtro</i> lies in that
whereas the former veers toward nostalgia in its texture of appreciation, and
as such signals contextual significance, the latter is more about challenging
existing notions of the hip and/or good in its reconfiguration of trendiness,
subverting the idea that the old is passé while disavowing associations between
futurity and newness with sleek technicity. Identifying such tendencies in
South Korean speculative fiction, the editors believe that the manner in which
recent works <i>own</i> and thereby recontextualize longstanding metrics of
desirability effectively demonstrate a drive to reverse-engineer the core
tenets of anthropocentric, patriarchic, racialized, and colonial paradigms of
science and technology.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In addition to scholarly essays on literary
texts, the editors also welcome papers about all forms of creative work,
including translations, films, television dramas, and new media in the genre of
speculative fiction created by South Korean artists or written in Korean.
Themes of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Comparative definitions,
conceptualizations, and historicizations of science, technology, and sociotechnical
imaginaries </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Modernity, premodernity,
and postmodernity </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Humanism, posthumanism,
and transhumanism </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Retrospection, memory,
and the newtro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nationalism,
coloniality, Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Techno-Orientalism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Viruses, microorganisms,
zombies, monsters, animals, plants, nonhumans, and sentient beings</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Robots, artificial
intelligence, cyborgs, genetics, and bioengineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:105%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ghosts, goblins, gods,
demigods, myth, folklore, and supernatural beings. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The length of articles generally varies from
5,000 to 9,000 words and ranges from 20 to 30 pages. Please send a title and a
400-word abstract to guest editors Haerin Shin, Korea University (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="mailto:helenshin@stanford.kr">helenshin@stanford.kr</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">) and Sang-Keun Yoo, UC Riverside (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="mailto:syoo015@ucr.edu">syoo015@ucr.edu</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">) by May 31, 2022.
Authors of accepted proposals will be contacted soon thereafter and asked to
submit full papers by August 31, 2022. All papers will be subject to blind peer
review. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Call for Book Reviews</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We
also have several books available for review for <i>The Journal of the
Fantastic in the Arts</i>. These reviews would be due August 31, 2022. If you have a completed Master's degree or
higher, one of these books is in your field of study, and you are committed to
writing a review for us, please contact the guest editors at the above email
addresses, noting your preferred title and your mailing address. The reviews need to be between 500 and 1,000
words and documented in MLA style. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Available Titles</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Readymade Bodhisattva:
The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Kaya Press. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I'm Waiting for You: And
Other Stories</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Bo-Young Kim. HarperCollins.
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">On the Origin of Species
and Other Stories</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Bo-Young Kim. Kaya
Press.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Everything Good Dies
Here: Tales from the Linker Universe and Beyond</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Djuna. Kaya Press.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Hole: A Novel</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Hye-young Pyun. Arcade</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height:105%;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">6.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">City of Ash and Red: A
Novel</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. Hye-young Pyun. Arcade</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;line-height:105%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sincerely<br>Helen Shin</div></div></div>