Call for Submissions: Asian Histories in Games
If you haven’t yet taken a look at the first issue of Memory Insufficient, then you really, really should. It features great work from a really talented bunch of writers on the theme of women’s histories in games.
Issue 2 will take up another heritage month: May is Asian & Pacific American history month in the US, and South Asian Heritage month in Canada.
Guidelines
Every issue’s topic title can be read with the words jumbled up. That means you can write a historical article about a game in an Asian country, a critical analysis of an Asian culture in a game about history, and any other permutation imaginable.‘Asia’ is a difficult term to pin down. It has its roots in European texts exoticising lands to the East of a blurry, shifting cultural boundary. Memory Insufficient prefers the particular over the general; please do write about any person, place or thing that might conceivably be identified as Asian, but please don’t try to look at ‘Asia’ in its entirety.
As with Issue 1, any kind of history will be accepted: social, biographic, documentary, personal, descriptive or polemical. Submissions are unlikely to be rejected for being ‘not history,’ because nobody has the authority to decide what that means.
Contact
Feel free to get in touch with any questions or suggestions. The deadline for submissions is 15th May. Send them to rupa.zero@gmail.com or tweet @rupazero.To subscribe to Memory Insufficient and automatically receive all future calls for submissions, sign up below:
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