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KulturConfusão: On Interculturality and German-Brazilian Encounters
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-04-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-03-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
174556 |
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KulturConfusão:
On Interculturality and German-Brazilian Encounters
Edited by Anke Finger (University of Connecticut), Gabi Kathöfer (University of Denver), and Christopher Larkosh (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
While humanities and social science scholarship on Germany and Brazil has focused on Germans’ history of immigration to Brazil or on Brazilians’ presence in Germany, inquiries into cultural or conceptual encounters that engage both viewpoints remain largely absent. Beginning with Hans von Staden’s 16th-century account of Brazil, hotly debated amongst anthropologists, questions of authenticity, colonization/coloniality, emigration, exile, dialogue, cultural value systems, cultural production, cultural practice, and cultural identity, though not without answers, linger in various areas of research – and scholars rarely meet to investigate them together.
KulturConfusão seeks to address these issues from interdisciplinary perspectives with the expressed purpose to dialogue between the cultures under investigation – Brazilian and German – and between disciplines such as literature, history, philosophy, art and art history, music, and sociology, to name a few. As such, the volume will build on Walter Mignolo’s concept of “border thinking,” on “liminality”, and “enculturation/acculturation” to develop theories and models with which to engage and examine the interculturality of global encounters in history and in the present.
Topics of investigation may include:
- historical encounters (e.g., Hans von Staden and the Staden “imaginary” in subsequent cultural production)
- cannibalism/anthropofagía/body as sites for cultural transfer
- metropolis/urbanization/urban subcultures
- concepts of nature (ecocriticism)
- cultures of media and intermediality
- cultural and critical theory
- religion and spirituality, syncretism, indigenous and non-traditional belief systems
- political oppression, surveillance, torture and other forms of state terrorism and violence
- resistance and dissidence, whether in relation to a particular system or a dominant ideology
- everyday value systems/cultural practices
- conceptualization of modernity (subaltern vs. Western)
- material cultures
- cultures of consumerism
- constructions of race and ethnicity in multicultural migration societies
- gender and sexuality (women, feminisms, queer theory, masculinity, and transgender studies)
- translation/transculturation
Please send 250-word abstracts (in English, Portuguese or German) and short biographical statements to all three editors, Anke Finger anke.finger@uconn.edu, Gabi Kathöfer gkathoef@du.edu and Christopher Larkosh clarkosh@umassd.edu, by April 15th, 2010. The editors will inform contributors by mid-May about the next steps towards publication.
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Anke Finger
Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Connecticut
Email: anke.finger@uconn.edu
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