MCLC: Chinese Imaginary in Other Lits--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Xavier Ortells <ortells.xavier at gmail.com>
Subject: Chinese Imaginary in Other Lits--cfp
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Dear colleagues of MCLC,

 
I’d like to call your attention to the CFP for a monograph in 452°F
Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature in which we will
address the topic of the “Chinese imaginary in other literatures:
inspiration, appropriation and intertextuality”.

In this monograph, we want to explore encounters with and interpretations
of the Chinese imaginary in different literatures. The hybridity of many
of the texts resulting from this encounter (of blurred borders between
fiction and documentary, novel and historiography, ethnography and
fantastic literature) and its implications for literary theory, are two of
the main topics of interest, which also include:

 
 
a) Appropriations of China for literary and ideological agendas.
b) The Chinese exotic as literary trigger.
c) Imaginary geographies and ethnographies of China.
d) China in literary experimentalism and theoretical rupturism.
e) Translation and mistranslation in literary works.
f) Chinese language and poetic avant-gardes.
g) China in the imagination of gender: feminization and subalternization.
h) China and the imperial fantasy.
i) China and Chinese diasporas in non-Asian literatures

 
 
Please visit the journal website for further details about the monograph
and submission details: http://452f.com/en.html. Note that 452ºF publishes
all its contributions in English, Catalan, Spanish, and Basque.

 
Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2015.

 
Very best,

Xavier Ortells-Nicolau

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Department of Translation, Interpreting & East Asian Studies
PhD candidate (ABD)
 
Research group InterAsia
East Asian Studies & Research Center CERAO
<http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/ieii/en>Blogging at nuirs
Editorial board www.452f.com <http://www.452f.com/>