Suitcase publishes works on culture, history, and politics with a focus on human rights and global studies. Suitcase features essays, critical commentary, reportage, art, photography, fiction, poetry, film and book reviews, and interviews with writers and artists from around the world. Suitcase is especially interested in both academic and non-academic articles that address a broader, more hybrid reading public and utilize language accessible to readers throughout a wide range of disciplines. Submissions for the current volume are being accepted now through January 12th, 1998. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 pages in length and should adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style.
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Working in collaboration with human rights organizations such as PEN and Amnesty International, the journal maintains a focus on cultural production under conditions of siege by highlighting works produced despite and against repressive regimes and conditions. Suitcase publishes scholarly papers addressed to a broad audience from the humanities and the social sciences. Past contributors include Salman Rushdie, Samuel Weber, Mircea Eliade, Jacques Derrida, Michael Heim, Susan Buck-Morss, Sergei Dovlatov, Sergei Bodrov, Rene Depestre, Daniela Fischerova, Gilles Peress, Sebastaio Salgado, Mike Davis, Alexander Boraine, Diller and Scofidio, Seamus Deane, Rashid Khalidi, Barbara Harlow, Teshome Gabriel Zbigniew Libera, Andrei Condrescu, Mahmoud Darwish, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska. David Rodes, Director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts Bad luck or anguish sustains the possibility of luck. In recent years the experience trauma has attracted a great deal of critical attention, particularly with regard to studies of the Holocaust, war trauma and child sexual abuse.