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Comparative Transnationalisms: The Black Atlantic and the Asia/Pacific
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:18:37 -0700 From: cwliu@violet.berkeley.edu To: aaasposts@uclink4.berkeley.edu Subject: AAASCommunity: AAASPosts: CFP: The Black Atlantic & Asia/Pacific
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Members of AAASCOMMUNITY, please consider submitting a proposal.
Cynthia Liu Ph.D. candidate Department of English UC Berkeley
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Call for Papers on Comparative Transnationalisms: The Black Atlantic and the Asia/Pacific
A Panel Discussion and/or Series of Papers at the International Conference on American Studies, and the Literature of America, Great Britain, and the Pacific Rim Radisson Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand* January 8-10, 1998
We invite essays that explore the connections and future horizons for thinking about the conjunctions between the Black Atlantic and the Asia/Pacific, or to put it another way, transnationalism in black and yellow/brown terms. Papers on the panel ideally will illuminate the contrastive stakes of discourses on these two cultural and economic regions, social identifications, and formations. We are interested in a variety of approaches: genealogies of either formation with a comparative view of the other; literary comparisons of works figuring migrations across the Atlantic and Pacific by Africans, African Americans, Asians, and Asian Americans; historical accounts of Black imaginings of the "Orient" and Asian imaginings of "Blackness"; studies on popular culture (e.g., the mix and matching of Bangra, Rap, and Karaoke); gendered and class perspectives on these transnationalisms defined in racial-geographic terms. This list is suggestive rather than prescriptive. We will also consider particularly strong proposals that use only one of these frameworks--Asia/Pacific or the Black Atlantic.
We are also considering a series of linked panels under the sub-topics, "Nationalism and the Archipelago: Fragmentation and Hybridization in the Pacific/Atlantic;" "Creolization, Multiculturalism, Interculturalism;" "Modernity, Money, and the Black Atlantic and/or Asia/Pacific;" "Cotton and Cane: Slave and Coolie Trades in the Nineteenth Century;" and "Black/Asian Dialogues on Immigration." Again, these sub-headings are suggestive rather than prescriptive.
Please send abstracts of approximately 200 words to either of the following contact persons on or before May 15, 1997; the same snail-mail address is valid for both. We welcome e-mail submissions as well.
Contact Persons:
Rachel Lee & Cynthia Liu rachell@garnet.berkeley.edu cwliu@violet.berkeley.edu
Department of English UC-Berkeley 322 Wheeler Hall #1030 Berkeley, CA 94720-1030
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*Travel Information on the International Conference on American Studies and the Literatures of America, Great Britain, and the Pacific Rim
January 8-10, 1998 Radisson Hotel Bangkok, Thailand
Rates for singles and doubles = $60.00/day. This rate will apply should attendees arrive early or stay after the conference. Registration: $120.00. Includes 3 buffet luncheons and refreshment breaks.
*We anticipate that participants in the proposed Black Atlantic/Asia Pacific panels will have their own travel, per diem, and conference funding.*
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