Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 04:15:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ACLA 2002 Seminar CFP


This is an initial call for papers for a seminar
we're putting together for the
American Comp. Lit. Assoc. Meeting in San Juan,
Puerto Rico, April 11-14, 2002.  Please pass onto
anyone you think might be interested.
Thanks,
Priya
___________________
_(E)Racing India:  National Pasts, Diasporic
Futures_

"The word ‘translation’ comes, etymologically,
from the Latin for ‘bearing across’.  Having
been
borne across the world, we are translated men. 
It is normally supposed that something always
gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately,
to the notion that something can also be
gained."
	Salman Rushdie
 	_Imaginary Homelands_

This seminar is interested in proposals that
address issues of cultural translations and
diasporic identities as they come into contact
with national affiliations as "Indian"
throughout
the Caribbean.  We especially invite papers
that
look specifically at the role of popular
culture
in disseminating these various forms of
identification.  Further, we seek papers that
examine how cultural and social markers such as
race, gender, sexuality, and class get
redefined
when historicized through the lens of Caribbean
popular cultural forms that are forged out of
specific cultural collisions and collusions.
 
Examples include, but are not limited to:
* Chutney soca, gender, and sexuality
 * Linguistic creolizations among Indo-Caribbean
 communities
* defining hybridity in the Caribbean
* V.S. Naipaul and Indian nationalism
* the reception of Bollywood films in the
Caribbean
* Sexuality and Indian women laborers
* Migrations of Indo-Caribbeans 
 
Please send abstracts and proposals by October
1,
2001 to Priya Jha (email:  pjha26-AT-yahoo.com) or
to Monika Mehta (meht0003-AT-tc.umn.edu)





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