Call for papers for the Special Issue ''Narrative in a Latin American context''
Narrative is a transversal research problem, bringing together a broad spectrum of the Social Sciences and Humanities, from History to Sociology, from Political Science to Anthropology, but also the Humanities, harboring contributions in particular from Literary Studies, Language Sciences and Philosophy.
Studies on narrative stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue, first and foremost because of the polysemy it reveals, which can be seen as an axis, an aggregating element or a method, without forgetting its reference to and problematization of language, concepts, ideals, imagination in its diverse and heterogeneous connections with society and institutions.
From a micro-analytical perspective, the study of narrative makes it possible to recognize how the plot, codes, language, semantics, imagination, intrigue and the text itself, among other aspects, subsume but also go beyond analyses centered on words or contexts. Narrative shows even greater breadth and openness in understanding history itself and the ways in which it is written and disseminated; combining ontological, political, ideological, ethical and deontological, theoretical and epistemological dimensions.
It is understood that the narrative can be an axis or foundation that expands the debate between the History of Historiography, Historical Education and the Theory of History, maintaining the respective specificity and promoting convergences and crossovers. Privileging Latin American Historiography as a space for reflection and analysis, some thematic centers will be proposed, such as:
- The nature of the narrative, philological, semantic, genological and conceptual aspects;
- Narrative and Social Sciences, encounters and disagreements;
- Relationships between historical and historiographical narrative, Literary Studies, Language Sciences and Philosophy;
- Narrative, History of Historiography, Historical Education and Theory of History;
- Narrative Scholars: Paul Ricoeur, Hyden White, Frank Ankersmit, Jerzy Topolski, among others, from Hermeneutics to the Linguistic Turn, passing through Analytical Philosophy;
- Politics of Memory and Narrative: tensions, dilemmas and potentialities, from criticism of sources to traumas and reparations;
- Dialogues between historical and historiographical narrative, cinema and visual arts, encompassing the connections between the controversial domains of word and image;
- Narrative and temporalities: complex connections;
- Narrative and crises: an intriguing issue;
- Narrative, new media, networks, hyperlinks and cyberculture;
- The narrative in a Latin American context.
