"Chinese American Writing in the Americas: Historical Contexts and Global Trajectories"
An International Editorial Collaboration among UCLA, Tsinghua University, and Brown University
Consulting Guest Co-Editors:
Prof. Wang Ning
Tsinghua University
wangning@mail.tsinghua.eduk.cn
Prof. Evelyn_Hu-Dehart
Evelyn_Hu-Dehart@brown.edu
Brown University
Adjunct Prof. Russell C. Leong
Amerasia Journal Editor
rleong@ucla.edu
Abstract Review & Publication Deadlines:
Due date Sept. 1, 2010: 2-page abstracts.
Due date of final papers: March 1, 2010
Publication date of issue: Summer/Fall 2011
Abstracts and essays should be sent to the individuals above.
The editorial procedure is a three-step process. The guest editors in consultation with the Amerasia Journal editors and peer reviewers make decisions on the final essays:
a. Approval of abstracts
b.Submission of essays and peer review
c. Revision and final submissions
"Chinese American Writing in the Americas" is a collaborative transnational effort among three prominent institutions and their editors in the U.S. and China: UCLA and Amerasia Journal (Russell Leong) ; Tsinghua University and Prof. Wang Ning, and Brown University and Prof. Evelyn Hu-deHart. All three--together with other scholars and writers from the U.S., mainland China, and Taiwan, participated in the recent conference at Nanjing University in 2009 organized by Nanjing University and the UCLA Asian American Studies Department by Profs. Cheng Aimin (Nanjing) and Jinqi Ling, (UCLA).
In an effort to better historicize Chinese American Literature within a global context. Wang Ning suggests that:
"As the diasporic writers or intellectuals write in between two or more than two national cultures, their national and cultural identity cannot be singular. Namely, they could carry on dialogue with both people of their original countries as foreigners, and at the same time, involving themselves with their in the local communities. In this respect, Chinese American literature undoubtedly offers us rich research resources.
As we all know, American culture has long been known for its inclusiveness and multiculturality although ethnic minority literary discourses have been repressed to a marginal¡zed and less important place. During the past few decades, these repressed literary writings have tried to struggle against the dominant and canonical writings in an attempt to kill their symbolic ¡°father¡± and break through the ¡°white-centric¡± canon formation. We are very delighted to notice that their effort has already attracted the attention from the mainstream literary scholarship and historiography. In the writing of literary history and the theory and practice of canon formation, some broad-minded literary historians have made a remarkable step forward and realized the unique contributions that those ethnic minority writers have made to contemporary American literature."
Evelyn Hu-Dehart suggests that it is exactly the diasporic condition of "Chinese migrants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centures" who constituted the earliest diasporic populations to the Americas. Shut out of citizenship and full social and cultural participation, much of this population identified or turned to homeland politics. By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, however, Chinese outside of China had become cosmopolitan and globalized on different levels; with their attendant identities and cultural and literary taking on diverse forms, including "multicultural" and "pluralistic" forms in liberal democracies, or in postcolonial forms in nations in central and Latin America. Migration, individual histories, and education and language determined to a great extent what form such literary and cultural offerings would take: these included poetry, short story, novella and novel, and theatrical works.
For these historical reasons above, as both Wang Ning and Evelyn Hu-Dehart posit, Chinese American literature of the Americas has taken on significant and interesting trajectories both linked with and divergent with past currents and trends. "Chinese American Literature in the Americas" thus builds upon past issues of the journal which examined globalization and diasporic influences of Asians in Canada and in Central and Latin America (See past essays and interviews in Amerasia by Lane Hirabayashi, Evelyn Hu-deHart, Shirley Hune, Russell Leong, Wu Bing, Zhang Ziqing, Sauling Wong, Gordon Chan, David Palumbo Liu, Tariq Ali, Arif Dirlik, Shan Te-hsing, and other scholars on the subject. Please see Metapress online, or your library for past research).
More information here.
An International Editorial Collaboration among UCLA, Tsinghua University, and Brown University
Consulting Guest Co-Editors:
Prof. Wang Ning
Tsinghua University
wangning@mail.tsinghua.eduk.cn
Prof. Evelyn_Hu-Dehart
Evelyn_Hu-Dehart@brown.edu
Brown University
Adjunct Prof. Russell C. Leong
Amerasia Journal Editor
rleong@ucla.edu
Abstract Review & Publication Deadlines:
Due date Sept. 1, 2010: 2-page abstracts.
Due date of final papers: March 1, 2010
Publication date of issue: Summer/Fall 2011
Abstracts and essays should be sent to the individuals above.
The editorial procedure is a three-step process. The guest editors in consultation with the Amerasia Journal editors and peer reviewers make decisions on the final essays:
a. Approval of abstracts
b.Submission of essays and peer review
c. Revision and final submissions
"Chinese American Writing in the Americas" is a collaborative transnational effort among three prominent institutions and their editors in the U.S. and China: UCLA and Amerasia Journal (Russell Leong) ; Tsinghua University and Prof. Wang Ning, and Brown University and Prof. Evelyn Hu-deHart. All three--together with other scholars and writers from the U.S., mainland China, and Taiwan, participated in the recent conference at Nanjing University in 2009 organized by Nanjing University and the UCLA Asian American Studies Department by Profs. Cheng Aimin (Nanjing) and Jinqi Ling, (UCLA).
In an effort to better historicize Chinese American Literature within a global context. Wang Ning suggests that:
"As the diasporic writers or intellectuals write in between two or more than two national cultures, their national and cultural identity cannot be singular. Namely, they could carry on dialogue with both people of their original countries as foreigners, and at the same time, involving themselves with their in the local communities. In this respect, Chinese American literature undoubtedly offers us rich research resources.
As we all know, American culture has long been known for its inclusiveness and multiculturality although ethnic minority literary discourses have been repressed to a marginal¡zed and less important place. During the past few decades, these repressed literary writings have tried to struggle against the dominant and canonical writings in an attempt to kill their symbolic ¡°father¡± and break through the ¡°white-centric¡± canon formation. We are very delighted to notice that their effort has already attracted the attention from the mainstream literary scholarship and historiography. In the writing of literary history and the theory and practice of canon formation, some broad-minded literary historians have made a remarkable step forward and realized the unique contributions that those ethnic minority writers have made to contemporary American literature."
Evelyn Hu-Dehart suggests that it is exactly the diasporic condition of "Chinese migrants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centures" who constituted the earliest diasporic populations to the Americas. Shut out of citizenship and full social and cultural participation, much of this population identified or turned to homeland politics. By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, however, Chinese outside of China had become cosmopolitan and globalized on different levels; with their attendant identities and cultural and literary taking on diverse forms, including "multicultural" and "pluralistic" forms in liberal democracies, or in postcolonial forms in nations in central and Latin America. Migration, individual histories, and education and language determined to a great extent what form such literary and cultural offerings would take: these included poetry, short story, novella and novel, and theatrical works.
For these historical reasons above, as both Wang Ning and Evelyn Hu-Dehart posit, Chinese American literature of the Americas has taken on significant and interesting trajectories both linked with and divergent with past currents and trends. "Chinese American Literature in the Americas" thus builds upon past issues of the journal which examined globalization and diasporic influences of Asians in Canada and in Central and Latin America (See past essays and interviews in Amerasia by Lane Hirabayashi, Evelyn Hu-deHart, Shirley Hune, Russell Leong, Wu Bing, Zhang Ziqing, Sauling Wong, Gordon Chan, David Palumbo Liu, Tariq Ali, Arif Dirlik, Shan Te-hsing, and other scholars on the subject. Please see Metapress online, or your library for past research).
More information here.
