Call for Participants/Papers for a panel "Not a Foreigner: Sinophone Immigrant Literature as a Diasporic Return"
In-person presentations at the AAS 2024 Annual Conference, March 14-17, 2024 in Seattle, Washington
Please send proposals no later than 26 July 2023 to Anqi Liu at aliu1@smcm.edu.
By addressing questions of culture, identities, and home, this seminar aims at filling an epistemological niche concerning the Sinophone world. The primary concern of this seminar is to examine the entangled Chineseness in Sinophone immigrant literature closely. When a diasporic writer does not simply produce a China-related story but establishes and sustains a unique cultural bond between the remote homeland and themselves, Sinophone immigrant literature becomes a diasporic return consisting of the Chinese language, culture, and literary tradition. From this, questions then arise: How can we define or redefine these diaspora writers' identities? How can we calibrate or re-calibrate their diasporic writings? And, more importantly, how do we construct and deconstruct their home?
Papers that explore a broad spectrum of genres and disciplines will be welcome. Potential topics and themes include (but are not limited to):
- The politics of cultural identity
- Diaspora and exile
- Literary cartographies
- Self-writing versus writing the self
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Anqi Liu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese
St. Mary's College of Maryland
aliu1@smcm.edu
Melody Yunzi Li
Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies
University of Houston
mli40@Central.UH.EDU
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