From: Eiji Sekine
eiji@sage.cc.purdue.edu
ANNOUNCEMENT
MAJLS Fifth Annual Meeting
"GA/ZOKU DYNAMICS IN JAPANESE LITERATURE"
November 1-3, 1996 at Indiana University
Call for Papers
The Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies will hold its fifth
annual conference November 1-3, 1996, on the Bloomington campus of Indiana
University. This conference, GA/ZOKU DYNAMICS IN JAPANESE LITERATURE, will
explore the role of boundary lines in the construction of Japanese
literature -- a role often played out in terms of distinctions between "ga"
(high and/or classical) and "zoku" (low/popular and/or new). Proposals are
invited for papers re-examining Japanese literature in the context of a
variety of theoretical frameworks that traditionally and currently shape
the production and interpretation of Japanese literary arts. Possible panel
topics include conceptual borderlines (of gender, genre, race, nationality,
etc.) and their transgression as theme and practice in Japanese literature;
canon formation and the dichotomy between high and popular literature; the
impact of the west on Meiji and post-Meiji letters; interdisciplinarity in
the contemporary study of Japanese literature; contemporary literary theory
and the study of pre-modern Japanese texts.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER AND/OR PANEL PROPOSALS:
MAY 1, 1996
A one-page proposal, together with a form in the MAJLS Newsletter, should
be sent to the Conference Chair. All inquiries related to the call for
papers, as well as the annual meeting, should also be addressed to her.
Edith Sarra, Conference Chair
Department of EALC
Goodbody Hall Room 250
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405-2401
U.S.A.
812.855.5339
FAX: 812.855.6402
email: esarra@othello.ucs.indiana.edu
If you would like a copy of the MAJLS newsletter, contact Eiji Sekine at th
following address and send him your mailing address:
Eiji Sekine
MAJLS Secretary/Editor
1359 Stanley Coulter Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
U.S.A.
317.494.3864
Fax: 317.496.1700
email: eiji@sage.cc.purdue.edu