Call for Papers: East Asian Literature After 1900
Posted by: Beadle on Monday, January 25th, 2010
Proposals are solicited for presentation at a panel on East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 at the Modern Language Association meeting in Los Angeles in January 2011. The session title is “Narrating Tortured Lives in East Asia.” Papers on personal narratives of gender, class, or social oppression, fictional or historical, are invited.
The panel prospectus: “In recent centuries, narrating lives in East Asian contexts have often been manifested, on the one hand, as ‘private’ forms of literature such as essays, diaries and letters, and, on the other, as biographies of exceptional individuals whose tumultous life stories lead us to question, problematize and complicate East Asian cultures’ agenda for progress and enlightenment. And as such, these texts are motivated by and connected to issues of power and possible changes in the existing status quo, whether social, cultural, sexual or political. This panel hopes to shed a new light on these issues by exploring the theme of ‘torture,’ widely defined, and challenges to oppression through historical changes found in the narration of extraordinary lives in East Asian literature. Comparative East Asian perspectives are welcomed.”
Those interested should submit a 250-word abstract no later than March 4, 2010, to the organizer, Kelly Jeong (kelly.jeong@ucr.edu).
http://ks111.moore.hawaii.edu/wp/?p=731
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