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<td>Transnational Literatures, Gender and State Power<br>
Call for Papers<br>
Editors, Joan Conwell and Gema Ortega<br>
Abstract Deadline: May 15, 2012
<p>Increasing interest in the conceptualization of “Transnational
Literatures” calls for a re-appraisal of the role of gender in
contesting official discourses of nation and power. As early as 1938,
Virginia Woolf claimed that, “in fact, as a woman I have no country. As
a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”1
In “Towards a New Consciousness,” Gloria Anzaldúa describes the
dialogic nature of living across Borderlands, “Because I, a mestiza,/
continually walk out of one culture/ and into another,/ because I am in
all cultures at the same time,/ alma entre dos mundos, tres, cuatro,/
me zumba la cabeza con lo contradictorio./ Estoy norteada por todas las
voces que me hablan/ Simultáneamente.”</p>
<p>In the spirit of this tradition, we seek contributions in the
form of scholarly and/or creative work to the field of “Transnational
Feminism” to include in a collection of essays entitled, “Transnational
Literatures, Gender and State Power.” This collection investigates the
ways in which transnational literatures and gender intersect to
challenge the power of official narratives and/or state discourses,
including those discourses that limit the mobility of subjects across
cultural, national, historical, political, racial, religious,
theoretical or any kind of boundary.</p>
<p>We invite chapter-length discussions or creative explorations,
including black and white photography and visual art, on a variety of
aspects without limitations to geographical lines, theoretical
approaches, or genres. Topics may include, but are not limited to the
following headings:</p>
<p>* Transnational Discourses and Feminist Perspectives<br>
* Feminist Transnationality and Global Uprising<br>
(From Tunisia and Egypt to Occupy Wall Street)<br>
* National and Transnational Discourses of Masculinity<br>
* Activism, (Auto)- Ethnography and Transnational Narratives<br>
* Post-racial Aesthetics and the Transgression of Borders<br>
* Translation, Resistance, and Gender<br>
* Migration and the Commodification of the Transnational<br>
* State Repression of Gendered Texts</p>
<p>Submission Guidelines<br>
Deadline: May 15, 2012<br>
Please send a 250-500 word abstract or short excerpt of creative work
to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joanie.conwell@gmail.com">joanie.conwell@gmail.com</a> or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ortega@sxu.edu">ortega@sxu.edu</a>.<br>
Work under consideration must be previously unpublished.<br>
Include with your submission: your name and affiliation, an email
address where you can be reached after May 15, and a very brief bio.<br>
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<td width="100%">Gema Ortega and Joan Conwell<span
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Saint Xavier University<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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Email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="mailto:ortega@sxu.edu%20;%20joanie.conwell@gmail.com"
style="color: rgb(102, 51, 153);">ortega@sxu.edu ;
joanie.conwell@gmail.com<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></td>
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