Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts/Chapters for the third volume of our book series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume invites scholars, researchers, and academics to contribute high-quality chapters centered on postcolonial feminist approaches to literary inquiry. We encourage submissions that foreground marginalized voices, interrogate imperial and patriarchal epistemologies, and explore literature through the intersecting lenses of gender, race, class, sexuality, indigeneity, and ecological justice in postcolonial and decolonial contexts.
Contributions may focus on novels, poetry, drama, life writing, and interdisciplinary or comparative literary studies. The volume welcomes submissions in English, German, Turkish, and Azerbaijani.
Suggested (but not limited to) Research Areas:
Postcolonial Feminist Literary Criticism
Contributions are invited across all literary genres—novels, poetry, drama, life writing, and experimental forms—focusing on themes such as coloniality, patriarchy, resistance, agency, hybridity, embodiment, intersectionality, cultural memory, and the representation of women and gender-diverse individuals in postcolonial literatures. We especially welcome work informed by transnational feminist theory, Black and Indigenous feminisms, and Global South perspectives.
Ecofeminism and Gendered Ecologies in Postcolonial Contexts: Investigating how women and gender-diverse writers from postcolonial regions engage with environmental issues, climate change, sustainability, land rights, and human–nature relationships. Submissions may examine how gender intersects with ecological crises, resource extraction, and eco-resistance in BIPOC and Global South literatures.
Queer and Postcolonial Feminisms in Literature: Examining how nonnormative genders and sexualities intersect with colonial histories and legacies. Topics may include critiques of heteronormativity, exploration of queer kinship and diasporic belonging, and speculative futures that challenge both imperial and patriarchal narratives.
Embodiment, Disability, and Postcolonial Narratives: Analyzing representations of disabled women and gender-diverse characters in postcolonial literatures, with attention to narratives of care, resilience, bodily autonomy, and accessibility within the structures of colonialism and ableism.
Postcolonial and Decolonial Feminism in Literary Analysis: Exploring how feminist thought engages with colonial histories, imperialism, migration, and neocolonial structures. Contributions may focus on resistance literature, identity, displacement, cultural hybridity, and the gendered impacts of colonization.
Revisiting Canon and Genre through Postcolonial Feminism: Re-examining literary canons and genres—such as tragedy, romance, epic, or science fiction—through postcolonial feminist critique. This includes recovering silenced voices, reinterpreting female and gender-diverse characters, and analyzing how genre conventions reinforce or resist both colonial and patriarchal power.
Intersectionality and Postcolonial Literary Forms: Considering how narrative structures, experimental forms, oral storytelling traditions, multilingual texts, and hybrid genres reflect or resist postcolonial feminist concerns.
Other postcolonial, intersectional, and decolonial feminist literary research is also welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
• Abstract: Minimum 250 words (including a short bio of the scholar)
• Full Chapter Length: Minimum 4,000 words
• Formatting: Times New Roman, APA 6th Edition citation style, justified texts, 1.15-line spacing
• Languages Accepted: English, German, Turkish, and Azerbaijani
Plagiarism and Similarity Policy:
All submissions will be screened using Turnitin. Works with a similarity index above 20% will not be considered. Authors are advised to pre-check their work for originality.
Publication Fee:
A 100 Euro publication fee applies only upon acceptance of the full article. This fee covers processing and publication costs. Authors will receive a complimentary PDF copy of the book once the publication process is complete and the volume is released.
Important Dates:
• Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 September 2025
• Full Chapter Submission Deadline: 30 November 2025
• Estimated Publication Date: January / February 2026
Submission Emails:
Please submit your abstract and full article (once accepted) by attaching it in an email sent to all of the following addresses:
• Dr. Gülşah Kıran Elkoca (Editor): gulsah.k@adu.edu.tr
• Kanan Aghasiyev (Editor, M.A.): kaasiyev@gmail.com
• Prof. Dr. Habib Tekin (Editor): habib.tekin@marmara.edu.tr
We look forward to receiving your original, thought-provoking contributions that engage with contemporary literary discourse through postcolonial feminist, decolonial, and intersectional frameworks.
Publication History:
• Discourse Analysis in Dialogue Interpreting (Volume I)
• Recent Approaches in Humanities (Volume II)
You may reach the publication history of the series at the following link:
https://www.maurer.press/kategorie/bucher/contemporary-studies-on-language-and-literature/
Sincerely,
Editorial Team
Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature