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Local Cultures in Global Circulation: The Traveling Texts of Asian Traditions
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-11-03 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-10-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
164500 |
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Call for Paper:
Local Cultures in Global Circulation: The Traveling Texts of Asian Traditions
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University
Seminar Organizer: E. K. Tan, SUNY Stony Brook
(entan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)
Local Cultures in Global Circulation: The Traveling Texts of Asian Traditions
In her essay "Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship," Mary Louise Pratt states that the changing social and political climate triggered by the processes of decolonization and globalization revitalizes comparative literature into “an especially hospitable space for the cultivation of ultiligualism, polyglossia, the arts of cultural mediation, deep intercultural understanding, and genuinely global consciousness.” Though exciting and stimulating, this space is not completely free from the politics of national boundaries and the uneven stratification of power in the global production of cultural values. As David Damrosch suggests in What is World Literature? , even when we conceive the “national” extensively, cultural texts still embody local and national configurations in global circulation. It is due to the circulation of texts that remnants of local and national connotations are consistently dispersed into fragments, complicating definitive categories such as the national, the transnational, the world and the global in cultural production. This seminar hopes to continue the discussion started at last year’s ACLA meeting in Long Beach by proposing to investigate the production and circulation of Asian texts (literature, music, film, and other arts) between geopolitical spaces of the global and the local. Focusing on the concept of production and circulation, in conjunction with this year’s theme, “Global Languages, Local Cultures,” the seminar invites the participation of scholars whose research involve both literary and cultural studies of Asian and Asian diasporic experience, internal and external immigration, (un)translatable national traditions, cultural (re)negotiations, etc, and the translational/ transnational politics of textual production and circulation.
Please submit paper proposals directly to the ACLA website at:
http://www.acla.org/submit/
Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 3, 2008 (9 PM Pacific Standard Time)
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