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Thinking Relationally panel–cfp
ACLA CFP: Thinking Relationally: Sinophone Studies as Comparative Studieshttp://www.acla.org/thinking-relationally-sinophone-studies-comparative-studies
Organizer: E.K. Tan, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15
Venue: Seattle Sheraton, Seattle, Washington
Date: March 26-29, 2015
Please submit proposals at the (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper). If you have any questions, please contact E.K. Tan at (EngKiong.Tan at stonybrook.edu).
Over the past years, there is an increase interest among comparative literature scholars in relational studies. From the array of papers at the ACLA seminars and MLA sessions that engage rigorously with concepts by theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, André Gunder Frank, and Édouard Glissant, scholar are seeking to expand their scope and methods of comparison in literary and cultural studies. In Rita Felski and Susan Stanford Friedman’s 2013 edited volume, Comparison, Shu-mei Shih proposes a new paradigm for comparative literature–– the practice of comparative literature as relational studies. Shih’s “relational comparison” allows us to seek “a more integrated conception of comparative literature and world literature” by engaging with the connectedness of our world through a focus on macrohistory in order to “[excavate and activate] the historically specific set of relationalities across time and space” (2013: 80). Sinophone studies as a critical field, advocates the approach to intervene and rupture the stability of essentialism embodied by homogenous Han-centric Chinese identity and Chineseness. As “a network of places of cultural production outside China and on the margins of China and Chineseness, where a historical process of heterogenizing and localizing of continental Chinese culture has been taking place for several centuries” (Shih 2007: 4), the Sinophone is seemingly always already relational and comparative: it evaluates and reflects on the discourses that constitute Sinophone identities and cultures by resituating them in their relative historical processes within the larger scope of world history. This seminar seeks papers on Sinophone studies, which engage with relational comparison of issues significant to area, critical race, ethnic, gender, migration, cultural, film, and media studies. It hopes to explore a new direction in humanities that attempts to rethink postcolonial and global relations. Thank you,
E.K. TAN (陳榮強)
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory
Stony Brook University
2120 Humanities Building
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355
by denton.2 at osu.edu on October 3, 2014
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