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[ecrea] Call For Contributors: Transnational Women Warriors: From Asia to Asian America

Tue Mar 18 23:48:59 GMT 2008


>Call For Contributors: Transnational Women 
>Warriors: From Asia to Asian America
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>Note: Please feel free to forward this CFP to others who might be interested.
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>I am seeking contributions for a collection of 
>essays on how certain heroines in Asian cultures 
>are transformed and re-imagined in Asian 
>American context. For example: the image of 
>babaylan originated in rebellions and rituals in 
>the Philippines has played a significant role in 
>the Filipino communities in the U.S.; the Trung 
>sisters have been recreated to represent new 
>political and critical agenda in Vietnamese 
>American texts; some female characters in 
>traditional Japanese myths have been adapted 
>into warriors; the legendary Chinese heroine 
>Mulan has become a global figure as a result of 
>Kingstons The Woman Warrior and Disneys 
>animated films. I am looking for scholarly 
>articles that examine (but are not limited to) 
>identity politics, cultural locations, gender, 
>and ethnic communities. Novel perspectives and 
>interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.
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>Submission Deadlines: Please send a 500-word 
>abstract and 2-page CV to Lan Dong 
>(<mailto:(ldong4 /at/ uis.edu)>(ldong4 /at/ uis.edu)) by 
>August 31, 2008. Full-length articles 
>(6,000-8,000 words, MLA style) are due May 31, 2009.
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>Restrictions: Please do not submit works that 
>are under consideration elsewhere or have been published previously.
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>Cultural Studies Association (US) -- http://www.csaus.pitt.edu
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