[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: "Transnational Literatures, Gender and State Power"

[Gonul Pultar]

    Transnational Literatures, Gender and State Power
Call for Papers
Editors, Joan Conwell and Gema Ortega
Abstract Deadline: May 15, 2012

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."

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.

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:

* Transnational Discourses and Feminist Perspectives
* Feminist Transnationality and Global Uprising
(From Tunisia and Egypt to Occupy Wall Street)
* National and Transnational Discourses of Masculinity
* Activism, (Auto)- Ethnography and Transnational Narratives
* Post-racial Aesthetics and the Transgression of Borders
* Translation, Resistance, and Gender
* Migration and the Commodification of the Transnational
* State Repression of Gendered Texts

Submission Guidelines
Deadline: May 15, 2012
Please send a 250-500 word abstract or short excerpt of creative work 
to: joanie.conwell at gmail.com or ortega at sxu.edu.
Work under consideration must be previously unpublished.
Include with your submission: your name and affiliation, an email 
address where you can be reached after May 15, and a very brief bio.

	Gema Ortega and Joan Conwell
Saint Xavier University

Email: ortega at sxu.edu ; joanie.conwell at gmail.com 
<mailto:ortega at sxu.edu%20;%20joanie.conwell at gmail.com>

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