MCLC: Gendered Circulations panel--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Clara Iwasaki <cciwasaki at gmail.com>
Subject: Gendered Circulations panel--cfp
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CFP for American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, New York,
March 20-23, 2014

Call for Papers
Seminar: Gendered Circulations: Travel and Migration in Asia's Long 20th
Century

The long 20th century with its industrial global promises facilitated new
and unprecedented forms of travel from labor migration to the increasing
wide-ranging circulation of texts and capital.  In such contexts, gender
often emerges as a problem of power, class, voice and validation.  This
panel seeks to place manifestations of gender-influenced mobility within
the regional context of Asia-Pacific with a particular focus on its
unfolding in literature dating from late 19th century to contemporary
times.  The region has seen a number of crucial shifts all pertaining to
matters of mobility and migration, whether voluntary or forced,
transnational or inter-regional: from circulation and translation of
Western texts at the turn of the century, refugee upheavals of World War
II, the collection and appropriation of Asian tropes and literatures in
Cold War America, to contemporary models of mobility such as Aihwa Ong’s
“flexible citizenship” or the “goose fathers” phenomenon.  We invite
papers dealing with migrant authors or texts which interrogate the ways in
which gender informs or challenges these instances, particularly
cross-regional submissions focusing on Asian-Pacific literature that
situate the historical and/or aesthetic development of engendered voices
and writings.  Topics may include but are not limited to transnational
itineraries of writers such as Hayashi Fumiko and Zhang Ailing (Eileen
Chang), literary representations of female drifters or split families as
evoked by the works of Xu Dishan, Ahn Jungyo, and others, as well as
contemporary writing, by female labor migrants in Asian metropoles such as
Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore.

To apply to the seminar, please visit the ACLA 2014 conference website
http://acla.org/acla2014/  . For any questions, contact seminar organizer
Clara Iwasaki cciwasaki at ucla.edu