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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 07:17:41 -0400
From: radhika gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
Subject: Fwd: Call for Submissions/MELUS Special Issue (fwd)



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>Subject:  Call for Submissions/MELUS Special Issue
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>         _MELUS_, the quarterly journal of the Society for the Study of the
>Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, invites essays for a special
>issue honoring Katharine Newman. Two $500 cash prizes will be awarded for
>the best articles published. Professor Newman, who passed away in 2001, is
>widely acknowledged as the moving spirit behind the founding of MELUS in
>1972. This special number seeks to preserve and expand Professor Newman's
>legacy by attempting a retrospective evaluation of the role played by
>MELUS during the past three decades in the on-going re-definition of
>American literature, by taking stock of developments in ethnic and
>cultural studies since the 1960s, and also by gathering a few tributes to
>and/or reminiscences of Katharine Newman in a special section.
>         Especially welcome will be essays on multi-ethnic American
>literature addressing the development of ethnic literature as a discipline
>(issues of recognition and inclusion); the pedagogy of ethnic literature;
>the theorizing of ethnic literature; the relationship between ethnic
>literary studies and Cultural Studies/Postcolonial Studies/Gender
>Studies/Whiteness Studies; MELUS or ethnic literary studies in global and
>transnational contexts, including the role of MESEA (formerly
>MELUS-Europe), CAAR (Consortium for AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH), and
>MELUS-India; the role of anthologies (such as Heath's) and Critical
>Editions (such as Norton's) in transforming the American Literature
>curriculum in the U.S., Europe, Asia, etc.; Ethnic Studies and American
>Studies.  Publication is scheduled for late 2003.  Proposals and
>submissions (4,000 words or less) may be directed in duplicate to either
>of the following by 7 December 2002 (with revised and finished versions by
>31 January 2003): Professor C. Lok Chua, English Dept., M.S. 98, Calif.
>State Univ., Fresno, CA 93740, U.S.A., fax 559-278-7143
><chengc-AT-csufresno.edu>; or Professor Amritjit Singh, English Dept., Rhode
>Island College, Providence RI 02908, U.S.A., fax 401-334-4778
><amrit378-AT-earthlink.net>.
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