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  1. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.12.2022
    Narrating Dreams: Solution and Dissolution (Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Co-Editors: Juliet Flower MacCannell (University of California-Irvine, USA) Claude Fretz (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Rose Hsiu-li Juan (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) This special issue of The Wenshan Review,...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Narratology and 7 more
    Created on: 17.01.2022
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Emotional Communities in the Early Period (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Emotion is a perennial feature of the human experience, and its representation has been explored in literature and art across millennia. Nonetheless, emotions do not exist only within the individual experience. For all our fascination with emotions,...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Literature and cultural studies and 4 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Magister Mundi? Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is a ‘universal’ element to be found in Hermann Hesse’s works. Hesse is ‘global’ as a writer in the sense that his texts reach and affect individual readers transculturally in a way that they perceive to be of personal relevance. However, this...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Debating World Literature through National Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This seminar seeks papers that reflect on how national authors attempt to introduce and present their countries through the lens of the literature to the world readers, on the one hand, and how the concept of world literature functions at the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    New Workers’ Literature: Re-Imagining Global Subaltern Narratives (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the ongoing global geopolitical, economic, environmental and pandemic crises, the world is never this divided and stratified. Among a multitude of verbal, visual and aural narratives in response to such social inequality, New Workers’ Literature...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Belonging in French- and German-speaking Literatures. A Transnational Approach (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Belonging in French- and German-speaking Literatures. A Transnational Approach Michel Mallet (Moncton, NB), Timo Obergöker (Chester, UK) Questions related to the sentiment of belonging have been at the forefront of literary...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  French literature and 2 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Orientation in and through Texts (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Reinhard G. Mueller Co-Organizer: Timon Georg Boehm Orientation in and through Texts Organized on behalf of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation How do we orient ourselves...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Cultural Decolonization, Digitization and Globalization in Africa (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Ojinga Omiunu Digitalization and globalization have colonised African cultural and so many of its heritage are going out of extinction. This may not bring sustainable development in the longrun. The African culture is sinking in the...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Postcolonial studies and 2 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Short Fiction in Comparative and World Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amândio Reis In Death of a Discipline , Gayatri Spivak addresses the problematic identification between “literature” and the novel form in conventional approaches within comparative literature (2005: 123), voicing a concern with...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Je est un author: (Re-)Appearances of the Authorial Subject in Literature and Theory (ACLA 2022, Taipei)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Mithu Sanyal’s novel Identitti, shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021, a fictional professor of Postcolonial Studies who identifies as a PoC causes a scandal when it turns out she is actually white. A recent American case eerily resembles the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 15.10.2021
  11. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Writing with the Mind: The Virtual Essence of Global Magical Realism (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This comparative literature panel will be founded on Eva Aldea’s Deleuzian treatment of magical realism, according to which “the Deleuzian ontological model of actual and virtual as two sides of One Being is invaluable to negotiating the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Narratology and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Possibilities in World Literary Criticism(s) (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Despite the opening up of literary studies to the burgeoning and thriving world of literatures from around the world, particularly those in languages outside of the major traditions in European and US American contexts, the project of criticism and...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 11 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Poets and the Conversation of Translation (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    At a time when an increasing number of poetry translations are coming forth out of Asia, it may be time to assess how these poetries and their translations are widening and deepening our sense of poetry’s possibilities. One thinks of innovative...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University, ACLA 2022, Taipei
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University* American Comparative Literature Association Seminar (June 15-18 2022; Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2021 ) In this seminar, we wish to examine how people of different positionalities ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Hermeneutics,  Poststructuralism and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    I want to die: The contemporary writer and their suicide, ACLA 2022 at National Taiwan Normal University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid) From the turn of the 20th century to the present, debates over the meaning of suicide became a privileged site for efforts to discover the reasons why people commit suicide and how...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and sociology,  Narrative and 4 more
    Created on: 27.08.2021