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Call for Papers

Concentric vol. 31 no. 1 &vol. 31 no. 2



Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is inviting submissions for
its forthcoming issues. We encourage contributions from both Taiwan and
the international community addressing our special topics:
"Flows" for Concentric 31.1 and "Literature in the Age of
Cultural Studies and Globalization" for Concentric 31.2; articles
on any aspects of literature and culture are also welcome. If your
manuscript is intended as a special topic submission, please so
indicate. All correspondence should be addressed to Concentric Editor,
the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, 162 Hoping
East Road, Section 1, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C. [e-mail:
concentric-AT-deps.ntnu.edu.tw]



Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is a refereed journal
published biannually (in January and June) by the Department of English,
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. While foregrounding
the Asian - and particularly Taiwan - perspectives, Concentric
encourages all perspectives and approaches including comparative and
interdisciplinary ones, and welcomes original contributions from diverse
national and cultural backgrounds which address any of the many
dimensions of literature(s) and culture(s). Concentric is available
online at http://www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw/concentric-literature/index.htm.



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Forthcoming Special Topics



n         vol. 31 no. 1: "Flows" (January 2005)

Guest Editor: Hanping Chiu, National Taiwan Normal University

Deadline for Submissions: August 31, 2004



    Foucault and Deleuze follow Nietzsche in seeing the world as a
dynamic interplay of forces, as flows of energy/power. Non-linear
dynamics (chaos theory) in physics, as well as cybernetics, physical
systems theory, social systems theory (e.g., Luhmann) and social
interaction theory (e.g., Bourdieu), tend also to look at systems in
terms of self-organizing flows or communicative interaction that can be
read as flows. Postmodernity is much concerned with the emerging or
emergent "flow" of the present/future, and economic, political and
socio-cultural globalization theories can also be elucidated via such
theoretical models of flow and self-ordering. We speak now of flows of
capital, of populations, of knowledge and information; perhaps
globalization itself - the current global expansion of essentially
Western socio-cultural and conceptual frameworks - can be read in terms
of the logic of flow. The Pacific Rim has been, especially since the
1970s, a zone vibrant with cultural (inter-)flows. This issue of
Concentric welcomes works that attempt to deal with any of these
concerns. We are especially interested in attempts to articulate
histories of cultural flow(s) hidden under the banner of progressive
modernity; in challenges to the theoretical assumption that cultural
globalization grows out of a fixed model of modernity; in perspectives
that take the Asia-Pacific region as a central locale of cultural
globalization, rather than a mere "reproduction" of global
cultures.




      Topics may include:

  1. How could we envision multiple modernities in the historical
trajectory of cultural globalization?
  2.  How might we genealogically unpack the many fluxes and
fluctuations of modernity? 
  3.  What can anti-globalization movements tell us about cultural
globalization in general? 
  4. How can we reorient cultural studies in order to situate it within
the context of the transnational cultural and historical flows of the
Asia-Pacific region?
  5.  How are cultures circulated in the network of city-links built
around the newly-emerging global cities of East Asia?
  6.  How do cultures flow in and through the channels of Internet
websites based in East Asia?
  7. How can we imagine a history of cultural flows punctuated by
violence?


n         vol. 31 no. 2: "Literature in the Age of Cultural Studies
and Globalization" (June 2005)

Guest Editor: Ban Wang, Rutgers University

Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2004                             
                                   


    Literature as a discipline and institution, with its canons and
methods of criticism, has been eroding with the advent of cultural
studies. Literary scholars have flocked to film, material culture, pop
culture, visual culture, etc. Non-literary phenomena of society and
culture are now studied in terms of their sensuous and aesthetic
functions. As a social practice literature retains a spirit of
imaginative creativity, experiments with untried possibilities, and
critiques the life of administered consciousness in the human condition
of alienation and instrumentalization. Must this critical and creative
potential of "literature" be made (or forced to remain) compatible with
cultural studies? This issue welcomes contributions that consider the
relation of literature to cultural studies in an era of expanding
transnational global capital. Pressing questions may include: How can
literature align with cultural studies, so that each can exercise its
own critical imagination? How can literature resist the drive toward
marketability and consumption in cultural studies? How do aesthetic
aspects of literature translate into social and political practice? How
does the concept of a world (transnational or diasporic) literature
contribute to or hamper the pursuit of equality and justice among the
shifting populations around the world? How can literature be both a
product for mass consumption and a force of independent thinking? How
can literature challenge hegemonic power relations and ideologies?



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Concentric Staff



EDITOR



Hsiu-chuan Lee



EDITORIAL BOARD



Frank Stevenson, I-Ping Liang, Sun-Chieh Liang, Tsung-yi Huang



ADVISORY BOARD



Ronald Lynn Bogue, University of Georgia

Vincent Cheng, University of Utah

Yuan-wen Chi, Academia Sinica

Ying-hsiung Chou, National Chiao Tung University

Rey Chow, Brown University

Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gabriele M. Schwab, University of California, Irvine

Te-hsing Shan, Academia Sinica

Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los Angeles

Chen-hsing Tsai, Tamkang University

Ban Wang, Rutgers University

David Der-wei Wang, Columbia University

Frank Webster, City University London



EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS



Mei-lan Lo, Chia-wei Chuang, Chih-Wei Yang



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Manuscript Submission



1.         Manuscripts should be submitted in English. Please submit two
hard copies of your paper, and an exact copy on an IBM-compatible floppy
disk, preferably in Microsoft Word 7.0 format. A 150-word abstract and a
list of key words should accompany the manuscript. Concentric will
acknowledge receipt of your manuscript, but will not return it after
review.

2.         Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Sixth Edition
of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Except for footnotes in
single space, manuscripts must be double-spaced and typeset in 12-point
Times New Roman, and printed on one side only of A4 paper.

3.         To facilitate the journal's anonymous refereeing
process, there must be no indication of personal identity or
institutional affiliation in the manuscript proper. Your name and
institution should appear on a separate title page. You may cite your
previous works, but please do so in the third person.

4.         The journal will not consider for publication manuscripts
being simultaneously submitted elsewhere.

5.          If your paper has been published or submitted elsewhere in a
language other than English (e.g., Chinese), please give us that version
(also two copies) as well as the English-language version. Concentric
may not consider all manuscripts already available in other languages.

6.         Upon acceptance, you will be asked to submit one hard copy of
the final revised version and one copy on an IBM-compatible disk,
preferably in Microsoft Word 7.0 format.

7.         One copy of the journal and fifteen off-prints of the article
will be provided to the author(s) on publication.

8.         It is the journal's policy to require assignment of
copyright from all authors.