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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Tragedy in Asian American Fiction, panel at MLA 2013

> H-ASIA
> March 1, 2012
>
> Call for papers for panel "Tragedy in Asian American Fiction" at MLA,
> 2o13
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Call for Papers for panel on Tragedy in Asian American Fiction at MLA
> 2013
>
> Location: Massachusetts, United States
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-03-31 (in 30 days)
> Date Submitted: 2012-02-27
> Announcement ID: 192696
>
> Tragedy/The Tragic in Asian American Literature
> Calling papers for panel at MLA January 2013
> contact email: sgardam@gmail.com
>
> This panel will explore Asian American literary participation in the
> tragic mode. Reasons for this exploration include:
> - the desire to explore some of the aesthetic dimensions of Asian
> American fiction that have long been neglected by critics.
> - the desire to recuperate tragedy/the tragic for the 20th Century,
> where it has often been dismissed as no longer applicable
> - the desire to break down longstanding binaries between existential
> and political approaches to the tragic.
> - the desire to better understand possible political ramifications of
> tragedy/the tragic in the 20th Century
> - the desire to examine the role of genre in knowledge production and
> ethics
>
> Possible paper topics include, but not are limited to:
> - any approaches/treatments of/responses to suffering in Asian
> American literature, by authors, readers, critics, narrators, or
> fictional characters
> - a questioning of traditional Western claims to tragedy, through
> investigations of tragedy in Asian and/or Asian American literature
> - Examinations of heroism in Asian American literature
> - Explorations of the ways in which the tragic appears in Asian
> American literature
> -The tragic as it manifests in Asian cultural values/belief systems.
>
> - Ethics and suffering/grief/tragedy in Asian American literature
> - Genre shaping in Asian American literature
> - Attention to lyricism and imagism in Asian American fiction
> - Negotiating hope in Asian American fiction
> - The role of genre in knowledge production and ethics
> - The tragic as it manifests in the 20th Century
> - The tragic as it manifests in American literature
> - The relationship of any of the above to transnationalism
>
>
> Sarah Gardam
> Temple University
> 4917 Walton Ave Philadelphia PA 19143
> 215-880-8216
> Email: sgardam@gmail.com
>
>
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