Deadline: 15 May 2012
Masks of Threat: Understanding new South Asian Identities in Motion
In contemporary narrative and cultural representations, how has the figure of the South Asian subject morphed gradually into a site of threat—racially, economically, politically, and socio-culturally? In violent enactments of identity and difference over the past few decades of history, how has dominant economic centers of the world reimagined the South Asian subject in migration? How has this understanding complicated the model minority status quos and how has it rerouted discourses of belonging and unbelonging?
In this edited collection of essays, special focus will be paid on examining the identity of the migrant and/or the highly educated elite economic and intellectual laborer with origins in South Asia, in literary and/or visual and cultural texts to understand the new definitions of terror, terrorism, and threatening, or unhomed subjects. Ultimately, this volume will examine an alternative cartography of belonging for the South Asian in the global world enmeshed in the complicated networks of citizenship, racial and ethnic identities, and human rights within contemporary geopolitical and socio-historical contexts.
Please submit 250 word MS-Word abstracts by May 15th, 2012 to: de.aparajita@gmail.com. Please include a brief bio as a separate attachment.
Final submission of selected papers for this collection is due by August 15th, 2012, also by email in MS-word attachments to de.aparajita@gmail.com.
Completed essays are 7500 words, MS-Word formatted, double-spaced, and should only use the updated MLA format citation.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: de.aparajita@gmail.com
For submissions: de.aparajita@gmail.com
Masks of Threat: Understanding new South Asian Identities in Motion
In contemporary narrative and cultural representations, how has the figure of the South Asian subject morphed gradually into a site of threat—racially, economically, politically, and socio-culturally? In violent enactments of identity and difference over the past few decades of history, how has dominant economic centers of the world reimagined the South Asian subject in migration? How has this understanding complicated the model minority status quos and how has it rerouted discourses of belonging and unbelonging?
In this edited collection of essays, special focus will be paid on examining the identity of the migrant and/or the highly educated elite economic and intellectual laborer with origins in South Asia, in literary and/or visual and cultural texts to understand the new definitions of terror, terrorism, and threatening, or unhomed subjects. Ultimately, this volume will examine an alternative cartography of belonging for the South Asian in the global world enmeshed in the complicated networks of citizenship, racial and ethnic identities, and human rights within contemporary geopolitical and socio-historical contexts.
Please submit 250 word MS-Word abstracts by May 15th, 2012 to: de.aparajita@gmail.com. Please include a brief bio as a separate attachment.
Final submission of selected papers for this collection is due by August 15th, 2012, also by email in MS-word attachments to de.aparajita@gmail.com.
Completed essays are 7500 words, MS-Word formatted, double-spaced, and should only use the updated MLA format citation.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For inquiries: de.aparajita@gmail.com
For submissions: de.aparajita@gmail.com
