Deadline: 15 March 2013
While Transpacific Studies often focus on Asian diasporic writing, this panel seeks essays on life writing emerging from travel across the Pacific in all directions, East-West, West-East, North-South. Following Yunte Huang’s lead in Transpacific Imaginations and Transpacific Displacements, we might expand the definition of transpacific to encompass modern Western expatriate memoirs such as Mark Salzman’s Iron and Silk; Simon Manchester’s The River at the Centre of the World; Nathan Gray’s First Pass Under Heaven; Mark Kitto’s Chasing China; Rachel DeWoskin's Foreign Babes in Beijing; Angela Carter in Japan; Bruce S. Feiler’s Learning to Bow; and life writing by missionaries, diplomats, teachers and businesspeople in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Korea. Also welcome are papers that take a fresh or macro view of Transpacific life writing by Asian emigrants to the US, Canada and Central and South America. Please send abstract and a brief bio by March 15 to Mary Goodwin.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: profgood@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.mla.org/convention
While Transpacific Studies often focus on Asian diasporic writing, this panel seeks essays on life writing emerging from travel across the Pacific in all directions, East-West, West-East, North-South. Following Yunte Huang’s lead in Transpacific Imaginations and Transpacific Displacements, we might expand the definition of transpacific to encompass modern Western expatriate memoirs such as Mark Salzman’s Iron and Silk; Simon Manchester’s The River at the Centre of the World; Nathan Gray’s First Pass Under Heaven; Mark Kitto’s Chasing China; Rachel DeWoskin's Foreign Babes in Beijing; Angela Carter in Japan; Bruce S. Feiler’s Learning to Bow; and life writing by missionaries, diplomats, teachers and businesspeople in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Korea. Also welcome are papers that take a fresh or macro view of Transpacific life writing by Asian emigrants to the US, Canada and Central and South America. Please send abstract and a brief bio by March 15 to Mary Goodwin.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: profgood@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.mla.org/convention
