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Modern Chinese Lit as World Lit–cfp
CFP: Special Session
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 5-8, 2017
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Beyond Borders: Modern Chinese Literature as World Literature
For the last twenty years or so, there have been heated debates over world literature, a category that has greatly expanded the scope of literary studies and changed its paradigms. What theoretical and methodological implications does the new envisioning of world literature have for the study of modern Chinese literature? Can we use world literature as a framework and a method of reading in modern Chinese literary studies? How does modern Chinese literature, including its many untranslated or “untranslatable” works, bear on the concept and the system of world literature?
This roundtable panel invites presentations that address various aspects of the relationship between modern Chinese literature and world literature. Possible topics include:
Modern Chinese literature and the canon of world literature
Untranslated and/or untranslatable Chinese literary works as world literature
Teaching modern Chinese literature as world literature
The worlding of modern Chinese literary works: past and present
The impact of world literature on modern Chinese writing
The aesthetics and politics of Shijie xing (worldliness) in modern Chinese literature
Global capitalism, global English, and contemporary Chinese literary writing
Please send a 300-word abstract and a bio to Jiwei Xiao (jiweixiao at gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.
Jiwei Xiao 萧纪薇, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chinese
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Fairfield University
1073 North Benson Rd.
Fairfield, CT 06824
Tel: (203) 254-4000 x3475
by denton.2 at osu.edu on February 25, 2016
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