[Englecturers] FYI: Asian American Lit. and Postcolonial Theory (9/1/05; collection)

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Subject: CFP: Asian American Lit. and Postcolonial Theory (9/1/05;
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We are seeking essays for an edited collection on "Asian American 
Literature and Postcolonial Theory," which should be both an exploration 
and a mapping of the debates around these two terms and their corollaries. 
Such corollary debates have erupted over the use of terms such as diaspora, 
cultural memory, racial melancholy and trauma, nationalism, ethnicity, and 
hybridity in Asian American cultural critique. Essays that consider these 
genealogies and/or question the usefulness of theories derived from 
colonial and postcolonial discourse are especially welcome. Also of 
interest would be specific author, period, regional, national, and textual 
studies that appropriate the tools of postcolonial theory or consider the 
inadequacy of such tools for Asian American contexts. We are concerned with 
the interdisciplinary dimensions of these debates in Asian American 
literature for ethnic studies, history, other cultural production, and 
political activism and theory. As the revision and updating of an 
established project, the collection has solid publication potential and 
interest.

Abstracts, proposals, and inquiries are welcome asap and before Sept. 1, 
2005; email preferred. Submissions of 20-30 pg. manuscripts with brief CV 
by Dec. 31, 2005, via Word attachment.

Contacts:

Katherine Sugg
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Central Connecticut State University
suggkae at ccsu.edu


Wenxin Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English Department
Suffolk Community College
The State University of New York
Selden, NY 11784
wli79 at yahoo.com

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