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THE GLOBAL SOUTH 4.2 (August 2010)
 Cavaliers in Paradise: The U.S. South and the Pacific Rim

The Global South is an interdisciplinary journal, published by Indiana
University Press. Focusing on the literatures and cultures of those parts
of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and
economic upheaval, and which have suffered the brunt of the greatest
challenges facing the world under globalization, it serves as a signifier
of oppositional subaltern cultures ranging from Africa, Central and Latin
America, much of Asia, and even those “Souths” within a larger perceived
North, such as the U.S. South, the Caribbean, and Mediterranean Europe.
The journal equally emphasizes those populations marginalized within the
U.S. as it increasingly becomes the face and voice of globalization:
immigrants, women of color, and other vulnerable minorities. The global
cataclysms of the last decade have amply illustrated that it is the
marginalized that bears the brunt of the suffering under globalization,
and as globalization conquers the planet, the South, as a synonym for
subalterity, transcends geographical and ideological frontiers. Each
issue of The Global South will contain original work by some of the
foremost scholars from around the world, addressing the most vital
political, cultural, and material issues of our time. The current Call
for Papers is for a special issue on the U.S. South and the Pacific Rim.

The Pacific Rim was a central contact zone in eighteenth and nineteenth
century American trade, militarism, and expansionism, as Arrell Morgan
Gibson’s study Yankees in Paradise: The Pacific Basin Frontier argues.
The U.S. South has had its own complex relationship with the Pacific Rim,
one that recent investigations of the global South have made visible.
>From Asian goods in plantation homes to Chinese labor during
Reconstruction; from Vietnamese fishermen to Indian motel owners; from
Southern soldiers in Asia to refugee immigrants in Atlanta; —the Pacific
Rim has engaged with the U.S. South in conflict, in cooperation, and of
necessity.

The Global South 4:2: Cavaliers in Paradise: The U.S. South and the
Pacific Rim will feature explorations of the U.S. South and the Pacific
Rim as a distinctive, and understudied, contact zone. The editor of this
special issue, Jaime Harker (University of Mississippi), invites high-
quality original essays. As consistent with the journal’s
interdisciplinary scope, I welcome submissions from scholars working in
all areas of Asian, Asian American, American, and Southern studies.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• “Origins” and Cultural Contacts
• Relations with Asian Laborers
• Chinoserie and Plantation Decor
• Legacies of Vietnam and the U.S. South
• Asian Immigrants in the U.S. South
• “Coolies” and Southern Racial Dynamics
• Film and U.S. South/Pacific Rim Encounters
• Black/Asian Coalitions
• Literary Legacies of U.S. South/Pacific Rim Encounters
• Asian American Studies and the New Southern Studies
• Buddhism and the U.S. South
• Queer Studies and U.S. South/Pacific Rim Encounters
• The U.S. South and Asian Diasporas
• Asian Cultural Imports in the U.S. South
• Globalization and the U.S. South/Pacific Rim Contact Zone
• Evangelism and U.S. South/Pacific Rim Encounters
• Southern/Asian Hybrid Identities

This Special Issue of The Global South is scheduled for publication in
August 2010. Please submit abstracts along with a short bio by May 30,
2008, final drafts of essays by December 30, 2008, and inquiries to Jaime
Harker, jlharker_at_olemiss.edu. Essays should be 25-35 double-spaced pages
long and should follow the MLA style.

You can read more about The Global South at
http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/gso

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