Interfictions Zero: Towards a Critical Theory of Interstitiality

[deliasherman]

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, Scholars and Academics all!

Helen Pilinovsky and I are editing a new on-line rolling anthology of critical essays whose purpose is to create a theoretical framework and vocabulary that will make it possible to talk about interstitial texts without pigeonholing them.  It's an open-ended anthology, with an essay appearing on

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[rosefox]

This is superbly awesome.

[deliasherman]

Thank you. Forward as it occurs to you--I know you know a lot of cool folks!

[la_marquise_de_]

How do the IAO feel about Chinese film as a subject? I have a piece brewing in me about the director Fok Yiu Leung (aka Clarence Ford, which is his legal name -- he's mixed race)) and the way he turns Hong Kong film cliches and conventions upside down brewing in me that I will never be able to place in an academic journal (being a historian and not a film theorist).

[deliasherman]

That sounds wonderful! Do it! Do it! (er, "Do it, England!")

[la_marquise_de_]

I shall start rewatching the films.

[ellen_kushner]

Oh, boy! This sounds fantastic.