The global autobiographical turn coincides with a turbulent confluence of ends, turns, and booms: the end of modernity, the "crisis of fiction," an excess of subjectivity, memory, emotion, and intimacy. In the Hispanic world, the first person emerges as a way to bear witness to social and political oppression, but also to make the private public and to question the distinction between reality and fiction. This shift led to the emergence of what Leonor Arfuch has called the "biographical space," referring to the intertextual dialogue of self-representation, emphasizing the recursion, heterogeneity, and current hybridity of genres. In this space, testimonies and autofictions coexist with docudramas, blogs, and reality shows. Thinking about the first person is not limited to what one wants to say when saying “I” (or “we”), but it also calls us to consider questions of subjectivity, self-figuration, identity, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. How far these questions take us—theoretically, historically, and literarily—is what this issue of the journal aims to include.

Volume 17 of Brújula, "The First Person in the Hispanic World," provides a space for publications addressing these themes, among others, in the cultural materials of Latin America and Spain. The journal seeks varied approaches from the humanities and social sciences that address the multiple ways the first person manifests: traditional (auto)biographies, testimonies, autofiction, first-person cinema, the lyrical self, self-portraits, performance, theatrical works, digital and multimodal narratives, social networks, etc.

The following themes are suggested for the submission of articles, even though these do not imply limitation:

• Writing and Theories of the Self
• Autotheory
• Affect Studies
• Memory Studies
• Digital, Visual, and Multimodal Studies
• Relationship between Self and Environment
• Testimony and Trauma
• Self and the Archive
• Animal studies
• Intimacy, Diaries, and Epistolary Relationships
• Subjectivities, Corporeality, and Personhood
• Politics of Representation

Brújula invites the collaborations of the following academic genres: 

• Academic articles (15-20 pages)
• Historiographical analysis (15-20 pages)
• Interviews (6-10 pages) 
• Book Reviews (3-4 pages) 

Submissions: 

1. Send your manuscript accompanied by a bibliography that includes a short professional note (with your name, academic affiliation, and title (postgraduate student, doctor, assistant professor, professor, etc.), institution, research interests, and/or any relevant publications), the title of your article, and an abstract of 200 words. 
2. Brújula is a peer-reviewed journal that favors anonymity in the selection process. To keep your application anonymous during the selection process, the manuscripts should be presented without names. The names and email addresses should appear only in the bibliography. 
3. Only manuscripts in Spanish, English, or Portuguese will be accepted. Submissions must be double spaced, including final notes and bibliography. 
4. The essay norms should be those of the latest edition of MLA Style Manual and Guide for Scholarly Publishing.
5. Keep in contact with the editors for the essay norms regarding utilization of graphics, diagrams, maps, photos, and artistic illustrations. The author will be responsible for the corresponding authorizations for the reproduction of these materials. 
6. Brújula will only accept original contributions. Translation of articles or articles already published will not be accepted.
7. Manuscripts will not be returned. 

Send your manuscript to brujula@ucdavis.edu ​
before October 31, 2024