We are seeking essays for an edited collection on "Asian American Literature and Postcolonial Theory," which should be both an exploration and a mapping of the debates around these two terms and their corollaries. Such corollary debates have erupted over the use of terms such as diaspora, cultural memory, racial melancholy and trauma, nationalism, ethnicity, and hybridity in Asian American cultural critique. Essays that consider these genealogies and/or question the usefulness of theories derived from colonial and postcolonial discourse are especially welcome. Also of interest would be specific author, period, regional, national, and textual studies that appropriate the tools of postcolonial theory or consider the inadequacy of such tools for Asian American contexts. We are concerned with the interdisciplinary dimensions of these debates in Asian American literature for ethnic studies, history, other cultural production, and political activism and theory. As the revision and updating of an established project, the collection has solid publication potential and interest.
Abstracts, proposals, and inquiries are welcome asap and before Sept. 1,
2005; email preferred. Submissions of 20-30 pg. manuscripts with brief CV
by Dec. 31, 2005, via Word attachment.
Contacts:
Wenxin Li, Ph.D.
English Department
Suffolk Community College
The State University of New York
wli79@yahoo.com
Katherine Sugg
Department of English
Central Connecticut State University
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