2011 CFP: World Literatures (non-European)
See also under:
British and Anglophone: “African Modernisms, African Modernities”
French and Francophone: “Arab Francophone Writers and the Arabo-Islamic Traditions”; “The Francophone African Intellectual”
Transnational Literatures: “What is ‘World Literature’?”
Women’s and Gender Studies: “Contemporary Women’s Novels: The Changing Story?”
- Arabic Studies: Challenges and Successes (Roundtable)
- Participants will share ways they have overcome difficulties in creating and maintaining a program in a rarer language such as Arabic. They will share resources pertaining to teaching strategies, curriculum, resources of all kinds, classroom materials, using available texts or creating new ones to fit the needs of the program, cross-discipline research, and integration of study abroad experiences into the curriculum. Lora Lunt <luntlg@potsdam.edu>
- Contemporary Fiction from the Middle East
- This panel explores contemporary fiction from the Middle East. Topics may include: issues around translation and translatability, the Arabic novel as a particular genre of fiction, immigration as a trope, representations of the divine and the supernatural. We will ask what makes this body of fiction particular and of importance both at home and in the world, as well as what critical approaches exist, in Arabic as well as in translation.Please send 250-word abstracts to Sally Gomaa, sally.gomaa@salve.edu
- Growing Up in China: the Coming of Age in Chinese Literature
- How do Chinese literary texts conceptualize the inevitable changes and adjustments inherent in life’s formative years? This panel will explore the themes of initiation, growth, and rites of passage by looking at how Chinese narratives wrestle with biological, psychological and cultural changes for young women and men in literature both before and after the introduction of the Western notion of “youth” as a distinct and privileged metamorphosis. Please send 250 word abstracts to I-Hsien Wu ihsienwu.chineselit@gmail.com.
- Investigating the Scope of Persian/Iranian Literatures
- Board-Sponsored. This panel welcomes papers on any aspect of Persian/Iranian literature, of any time period, defined to include not only work written in Iran and works in translation, but also work written in Persian by Iranian writers in exile, in English by Iranian American writers, in French (Marjane Satrapi) and/or in any other language in which people of Iranian descent choose to write. Please submit 250-300 word proposals to Richard Jeffrey Newman at Richard.Newman@ncc.edu
- Planetary Lyricism in Modern Chinese Poetry
- China is now facing an unprecedented environmental crisis and ecological deterioration as a result of unchecked economic development over the past several decades. This panel seeks to examine how modern and contemporary Chinese poetry engages with environmental issues and concerns, explores the relationship between human beings and nature, challenges the ideology of anthropocentrism, and promotes ecocentric consciousness. Jiayin Mi <mi@tcnj.edu>
- Teaching Culture of Less-Commonly Taught Languages
- Cultural literacy (CL) is an important foundation for students to develop to learn about target language society’s values, traditions and experiences. It is an asset for other cultural studies courses related to the cultures of the target language. This panel examines how CL is incorporated into the teaching of LCTLs in the US academy. The panel seeks to demonstrate that culture provides a productive terrain for teaching grammar communicatively according to the standards set by ACTFL. Abstracts to Sunil Kumar Bhatt skumarbh@rci.rutgers.edu.
