Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 17:10:30 -0400
Subject: CFP: Globalization, Ethnicity, and Violence (7/7/03)
From: cs <christina.sharpe-AT-tufts.edu>


Call For Papers "Globalization, Ethnicity, and Violence"
South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Fourth Annual Meeting, San Diego
December 26-27, 2003

Deadline for abstracts: July 7, 2003

We invite you to submit proposals for individual papers for the Fourth
Annual Meeting of the South Asian Literary Association (SALA), an allied
organization of the MLA.

The meeting, which will be held concurrently with the MLA Annual Convention
in San Diego, will take place at a hotel very near the MLA convention hotels
in order to facilitate your attendance at both conferences.

We welcome paper proposals on the literatures and cultures of South Asia and
the South Asian diaspora.  SALA 2003 would especially welcome the submission
of abstracts on historical and theoretical issues with specific relevance to
South Asian languages and literatures other than English (including the
challenges of translation between South Asian languages and into English).
Paper proposals may be both intra- and interdisciplinary, addressing the
interconnected issues of globalization, ethnicity, and violence.  We welcome
an exploration of comparative contexts with appropriate historical and
theoretical grounding.

The following is a list of possible topics for papers:

… Biracial identities and South Asian Americanness

… Activist and outreach work within and between communities: human rights,
human security

… Proliferation of life-writing

… Youth culture and transnational identities

… Neo-imperialism and anti-imperialism

… Collaborations between and among the South Asian diaspora

… Theorizing the post-colonial in current global contexts

… A study of genre and representation through literature, visual arts, and
the new media

… Theorizing the South: (re)situating South Asians

… Religious fundamentalism and identity politics

… The role of the nation-state

… Women and gender ; "Lakshman Rekha"

… Dalits, caste politics, and theories of the border

… South Asians, immigration, detention, and the "voluntary interview"

… Interrogating the status of the "literary" in the South Asian Literary
Association.  What is the place of the literary?  What constitutes the
literary?

… Popular culture - films, music

… Intersections between transnational sexualities

… Possible connections between theories of racial melancholia in Asian
American and African American literatures and ideas of honor and shame in
South Asian contexts

… Redefining assimilation, integration, nationalism

… 9/11 and the valorization of violence


Please submit 300- to 350-word proposals (by fax, post, or in the body of an
e-mail message) to the conference Co-Chairs.

SALA also publishes the refereed journal, South Asian Review (SAR).  All
abstracts accepted for the conference will be published in the special
conference number of the SAR.

Nandita Ghosh, Co-Chair, Program Committee, SALA
Farleigh Dickinson University
Department of English, Communication, Philosophy
285 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
nan_dita-AT-excite.com
Fax: 973-443-8713

Christina Sharpe, Co-Chair, Program Committee, SALA
Department of English
Tufts University
210 East Hall
Medford, MA 02155
christina.sharpe-AT-tufts.edu
Fax: 617-627-3606

All SALA Membership inquiries should be directed to:

Cynthia Leenerts
Treasurer, SALA
P.O. Box 11004
Alexandria, VA 22311
caleen-AT-gwu.edu



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