MCLC: RMMLA 2013 eco-aesthetics panel--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Géraldine Fiss <gfiss at usc.edu>
 
Subject: RMMLA 2013 eco-aesthetics panel--cfp
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RMMLA 2013 Call for Papers: Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900
 

Please note the following call for papers for the RMMLA (Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association) Convention which will take place in
Vancouver, WA on October 10-12, 2013. Please submit a proposal of 250
words and a brief bio to Géraldine Fiss (gfiss at usc.edu) by March 1, 2013.
Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent out on or before March 31,
2013.

http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences
 

Eco-Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
 

This panel explores the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese
literary texts and films address, explore and negotiate the complex, often
ambiguous relationships between human beings and the environment. How do
creative works from China and Taiwan present contradictory interactions
between people and the natural world?  How do literary and visual texts
address environmental degradation amid radically transforming ecosystems?
How are human relationships with the non-human negotiated symbolically in
literature and film, and how have these changed over time?  What is the
connection – and potential conflict – between individual attitudes toward
the environment, classical Chinese cultural ideals concerning the
interaction between nature and man, and the exigencies of modern national
development? What is the role of cultural translation and China’s
engagement with non-Chinese nations, ideas and texts in the evolution of
thinking about environmental issues?  What is the power of literary and
cinematic stories in influencing people’s behavior, and what is uniquely
powerful about the aesthetic strategies in Chinese fictional and cinematic
texts?  

Building upon recent scholarship in the fields of Chinese eco-aesthetics
and eco-cinema, this panel seeks theoretically informed papers that
further our understanding of how Chinese thinkers, fiction writers and
film-makers creatively address and engage these problems in a variety of
literary and visual genres. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches
are welcome.
 

Chair:  Géraldine Fiss, University of Southern California (gfiss at usc.edu)
Alternate Chair: Hua Li, Montana State University (huali at montana.edu)