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Reconsidering Family Relations–call for submissions
MLA 2019 -- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Reconsidering Family Relations in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
A Forum Session at the 2018 MLA in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
Family relations over the past 120 years in Chinese society(ies) have changed dramatically, and some would argue that the emergence of individualism as a modern, atomized, subjective formation has risen in inverse proportion to the decline in such things as consanguine affiliations, intergenerational links, and the Confucian enshrinement of fundamental relations such as father/son, husband/wife, sibling, and friend. This session, a guaranteed session of the Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum, examines family relations in a wide variety of ways in modern China. We seek proposals of approximately 300 words, plus title and abstract, that explore the representation of family relations from throughout the modern and contemporary era. Questions that could be addressed are: how do humans relate to one another and how are these relationships represented in literature and/or cinema? How does the representation of gender difference and sexual orientation change over time, especially with respect to relationships among family members? What has happened to the extended family in Chinese literature and/or cinema as Chinese society has become increasingly composed of nuclear families? Have other relationships come to supplant or at least contest kinship and affinal relations in the contemporary world? How have major social phenomena such as migration, revolution, collectivization, the return of a market economy affected family structure and relations? In turn, how has the transformation in family relations altered the structure and style of literary and/or cinematic narrative? How have relationships changed in this more globalized world?
Please send title/abstract proposals as well as a 300-word maximum biography in MS Word format by email attachment to session organizer Christopher Lupke by March 7, 2018. Presenters must be current members of the MLA.
Christopher Lupke <lupke at ualberta.ca>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on January 27, 2018
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