Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Litinfinite Journal

July 2025

(Vol 7 Issue I)

On

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

www.litinfinite.com

All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.

(The Bengali research manuscripts should be accompanied by English title, author(s) details, keywords, abstracts, and references)

We also welcome interviews (3-5 pages, with a 100-word bio of the interviewer and the interviewee) and Book reviews (1200-1500 words) on the given theme. All book reviews MUST have the name of the author, a high-resolution cover photo of the book, year of publication, price, ISBN, and number of pages as per the standard conventions maintained for any book review. It should also contain the complete details of the reviewer/ reviewers including name, an informative title, affiliation, mail i.d., phone number, and address. The font should be Times New Roman, heading 14 points (bold), body 12 font, and single line spacing.

The contemporary ecological crisis demands urgent attention not only from scientists and policymakers but also from the humanities. Literature—especially Indigenous and postcolonial texts—offers vital insights into how communities imagine, inhabit, and resist environmental degradation. This issue seeks contributions that explore narratives of nature and urban ecology in Indigenous and postcolonial literatures, particularly in the context of the Anthropocene, a geological epoch defined by human impact on the planet.

We invite scholars to interrogate how literary works represent the entanglements between environment, colonialism, and global capitalism. Postcolonial and Indigenous writers frequently challenge exploitative relationships to land and offer alternative ecological epistemologies. As Rob Nixon (2011) notes, “slow violence” unfolds gradually and invisibly, disproportionately affecting the world’s most vulnerable. Literature can make such violence visible. Similarly, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2017) emphasizes “land as pedagogy,” asserting the centrality of Indigenous land-based knowledge systems in ecological thought.

Topics for this issue may include but are not limited to:

  • Literary representations of land, water, and urban ecologies
  • Environmental degradation and climate displacement in postcolonial contexts
  • Indigenous resistance and ecological sovereignty
  • Gender, ecology, and ecofeminist critiques
  • Environmental justice and “slow violence”
  • Nature-culture binaries and alternative cosmologies
  • Society, Environment and Storytelling
  • The Anthropocene narratives in Postcolonial Poetry
  • Ecology and precarity of human beings during climate crisis
  • Dystopian narratives
  • Biopolitics and Literature
  • The Ecological Gothic in Literature and Social Science

Let us rethink the environmental imagination through literary inquiry—across geographies, histories, and ecosystems.

Litinfinite (E-ISSN: 2582-0400, CODEN: LITIBR), is an open-access, peer-reviewed, non-profit bilingual Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (member/ indexed in Crossref) indexed in major indexing services including DOAJ, MLA Directory Of Periodicals & MLA International Bibliography, EBSCO, ERIC PLUS, J-Gate, Scilit, JISC-SHERPARoMEO, Ulrichsweb-ProQuest, ROAD- Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, ESJI- Eurasian Scientific Journal Index, WorldCat-OLAC, CiteFactor, Index Copernicus International, Europub, ResearchBib and many other notable indexing services and international library database. 

Check out the submission guidelines of the journal here:

https://litinfinite.com//submission/

Check out the publication ethics at:

Publication Ethics

The journal does not charge any processing fee or any other type of fee.

We are not accepting poems, stories, or any other creative piece at this moment.

General Guideline

Litinfinite invites original and unpublished works and writers/researchers can send their research articles, poetry, short stories book reviews, and literary essays. We publish original and unplagiarized research papers on various topics of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science.

Contributions should be sent to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Click here to know the submission guidelines: http://5ky.b74.mytemp.website/submission/

For any query, you may contact Prof. Sreetanwi Chakraborty

Phone no-9674933413 (10 am to 5 pm)

Format of the research articles should include:

  1. Full title, with subtitle (if any). Font Book Antiqua, heading size 14 (bold), body size 12. All articles should have single line spacing.
  2. Name, affiliation, phone number, mail i.d. of the author/authors.
  3. An abstract of about 200 words, with 5 keywords. The author/authors should follow the MLA 7thedition for citation.
  4. The author/authors should incorporate heading, subheading and illustrations in such a way that no formatting is needed afterward.
  5. Word limit is 4000-6000 words including works cited. 
  6. The author should be careful about grammar, syntax, and typographical errors. All the research articles MUST be in English or Bengali. If there are quotations in languages other than English, then it should be accompanied by a font file and translations.
  7. We have a strict check about plagiarism policy. By submitting the articles, the author/authors certify that it is not plagiarized work and that each contribution to the work from other published or unpublished sources has been acknowledged/ cited as a reference.

Submission guideline:

  1. MLA 7thfor reference.
  2. Word limit: 4000-6000 words (including citations)
  3. Font: Book Antiqua, 12
  4. Author bio: 50 words maximum
  5. Abstract: 250 words maximum
  6. Keywords: 5 maximum

Note: All papers will undergo a blind peer-review process. Plagiarism of any kind will lead to the disqualification of a paper. Acceptance mail will be sent within 20 days of the last date of submission. Papers will be selected for the print version or online version, or for both. Please check the status of your paper in the acceptance mail after the submission deadline is over.

Book reviews:

All book reviews MUST have the name of the author, year of publication, price, ISBN, number of pages as per the standard conventions maintained for any book review. It should also contain the complete details of the reviewer/ reviewers including name, an informative title, affiliation, mail i.d., phone number, and address. The font should be Times New Roman, heading 14 points (bold), body 12 font, single line spacing. The word limit for book reviews is 1500-2000 words.

Book review: 1500-2000 words, with book details including cover page, ISBN number, price, author name, publisher name, and year of publication.

Writers / Contributors / Researchers / Reviewers are requested to submit their write-ups without any illustration and decoration. All articles / write-ups should have the author’s details along with their contact number and email addresses. 

Contributions should be sent to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Click here to know the submission guidelines: http://5ky.b74.mytemp.website/submission/

 

Litinfinite does not promote any political party, organization and religious groups. Please do not send us writings that are influenced by a strong political, religious or communal bias.

We do not charge any publication fee. Litinfinite is a peer-reviewed open-access journal, and all papers / write-ups will go through blind review process before getting published.