For the Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association
that will take place in New Haven, CT, February 25 -27, 2000, papers are
requested for the following panel:
Comparative Diasporas/Interdisciplinary Approaches.
In the last decade, theorizations of diaspora have emerged within the
field of postcolonial studies as a major site of contestation. Since the
1991 inaugural edition of the academic journal DIASPORA: A JOURNAL OF
TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES, debates over the theoretical, cultural and
historical resonances of the term have proliferated in academic journals
devoted to postcolonial and (trans)national concerns.
This panel proposes an exploration of interdisciplinarity and diaspora
related but not limited to issues such as literary representations of
migratory subjects, anthropological analyses of multiple migrations,
sociological studies of diasporic communities as -scapes in Arjun
Appadurai's sense, political theorizations of nomadic citizenship,
including the imbrications of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in
constructions of nations, states, and citizenry, and other related
interdisciplinary topics.
Organizers: Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
Send 1-2 page abstracts via email or postal service to:
Jana Evans Braziel, Comparative Literature Department, 303 South College,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003
(jbraziel@complit.umass.edu)
Anita Mannur, Comparative Literature Department, 303 South College,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003
(amannur@complit.umass.edu)
Submission deadline for abstracts: August 30, 1999
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