[KS] CFP MLA 2021 (Toronto, 7-10) East Asian Forum

[Suyoung Son]

Call for Papers: MLA 2021 (Toronto, 7-10) EAST ASIAN FORUM 

URL: https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2021 <https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2021>
 

1. Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia

 World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in terms of aggressor and victim (China/Japan, Korea/Japan, etc.), cultural depictions of this time frequently feature interpretations that run against the grain of these discourses, reimagine, or complicate the memory of World War II. The aftereffects of this event and particularly images of wartime incarceration, POWs, Japanese American incarceration, and the Holocaust, among others continue to be deployed as a lens to commemorate, reconceptualize or examine the memories of these contentious events. Applicants working on regions outside of Japan and China are particularly encouraged to apply. Please submit 200-word abstract and CV to Anne Commons (acommons at ualberta.ca <mailto:acommons at ualberta.ca>) by March 10.

 
2.Crossing Borders and Transcultural Flow in Modern East Asia

 This panel seeks to explore instances of East-West and intra-Asian transcultural encounters in modern and contemporary East Asian literature and film. We welcome papers that examine case studies of literary and/or cultural translation; the role translation played in the modernization processes of East Asian countries; texts that traveled to East Asia from the West via the mediation of translation or adaptation; transculturations of East Asian literary and/or visual texts; dynamic intertextuality in East Asia; cultural collaborations that transcend national boundaries; and analyses of the power dynamics between East Asian texts and global cultural discourses. We hope to open up discussions that address broad but fundamental questions concerning the creation, “travel” and transculturation of texts across the Asia Pacific region and beyond. We encourage contributions from the fields of Chinese Studies, East Asian Studies, Taiwan Studies, Sinophone Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media Studies, as well as other fields. Please send a 250-word abstract and a short CV by March 15, 2020 to Géraldine Fiss (gfiss at usc.edu <mailto:gfiss at usc.edu>)

 

3. Intermediality in the Premodern East Asian World

This session examines intermediality as a form of the interconnectedness of diverse media, such as textual, visual, audial, and kinetic ones, that have flourished in premodern East Asia. While various media regulate the ideas, meanings, and effects in their own distinctive way, they also constantly refer to or transgress the boundaries between them. How did the combination of separate material vehicles of representation articulate their meanings? What kinds of expression and affect did the combination of different sensory modalities bring about? What aspect of premodern East Asian society did the interrelations among the media reflect? Further, the intermedial representation did not stop at national borders but often cut across them in premodern East Asia. How did various media with particular origins and trajectories feed into different cultural patterns and social settings? As a whole, this session of intermediality in premodern East Asia will provide an opportunity to delve into multiple definitions of media as discursive discourse, material forms, and cultural and social institutions. Please send a 250-word abstract and a short CV to Suyoung Son (ss994 at cornell.edu <mailto:ss994 at cornell.edu>) by March 20, 2020.


4. Transnational Literatures of Persistence

Literature circulates beyond its originating cultures despite inordinate obstacles (including natural disaster, language difference, censorship, and canon exclusion). This panel will focus on two questions: what literature travels? And how does it survive?

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 23 March 2020

Jonathan Abel, Penn State U (jonathan.abel at psu.edu  <mailto:jonathan.abel at psu.edu>)
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