[Ana M. Lopez-Aguilera]

Call for Fiction in Spanish

We invite submissions for an compilation of fictional texts in Spanish on the topic of Ecofeminism under the provisional title of Ecofeminist Fictions in Spanish/Ficciones ecofeministas en el contexto hispano. This volume is open to any genre: poems, comics, vignettes, short stories, etc. For longer genres (novels, drama plays), a fragment will be selected for publication purposes.  

Description

Ecofeminism tries to explain and solve the current global ecological crisis through the interaction of Ecology and Feminism. The parallel exploitation of women and nature prompts Ecofeminism to reevaluate different forms of discrimination and subordination (sexism, speciesism, racism, colonialism, heterosexism, ageism or ableism), as well as the most effective ways to confront them. Ecofeminism claims values traditionally associated with the female and natural worlds: dependency towards our social and ecological environments, empathy, care, reciprocity, and humbleness to accept the fragility of bodies, environment and life, in general.  Ecofeminism reevaluates the unpaid labor and free resources provided by women and nature to society, which constitute the base for human and non-human life on the planet. Materials, such as water, air, land, trees; and activities, such as feeding and cleaning, caring for elderly and sick, giving birth and raising children, as well as emotional support, have been taken for granted and used (and abused) by the master of the house, of the factory/company, and of the city. However, the current ecological crisis and precarity of life conditions threatens the preservation of those materials and activities essential for life. Having been traditionally in charge of these activities, it seems natural that women, especially women from the Global South, would be the first to react to the threat and to fight to protect them.  Ecofeminism expresses through many diverse facets, from social activism to ecological pedagogy, from care strikes to urban gardens. In this volume we want to focus on one of those forms: fiction inspired and embedded with the values and actions of Ecofeminism.

Submission  Process

We invite interested authors to submit a text and a brief biography before April 24th, 2020 to the email: ana.lopezaguilera@bemidjistate.edu. (Dr. Ana M. López-Aguilera, Bemidji State University, MN, USA).

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