[ecrea] CFP - Representing the Socialist New Man: Aesthetics and Politics

>Please find below a call for panelists to attend the Association for
>Asian Studies Meeting 2011 (Hawaii, March 31-April 3rd). Feel free to
>circulate widely!
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>Representing the Socialist New Man: Aesthetics and Politics
>
>The Socialist New Man has been for a long time falling under the
>rubric of ideological propaganda and regarded as manipulation by
>totalitarian regimes. In China's revolutionary and socialist era,
>however, the New Man is arguably the most important agency of
>historical transformation and social movement. Concrete New Man
>images, such as Fanshen peasants and the People's soldiers, are
>represented in various texts. These cultural and aesthetic phenomena
>appear widely in novel, poetry, drama, photography and film,
>especially from 1940s to 1960s. This panel aims to probe how the New
>Man is represented as a moral-historical subject as well as the
>challenges this representation encounters, internalizes and
>transcends. We welcome papers dealing with questions such as: what is
>the formation of this new subject? To what extent could it be regarded
>as an open-ended, self-renewable concept, rather than an ossified
>official phrase? Why could the New Man become such an influential and
>attractive ideal in Socialist China? What particular political
>identity and cultural value does the New Man incorporate? How to
>consider a gendered perspective towards the New Man? What is the
>relation of the New Man to the Socialist modernity and its everyday
>life? Preferable deadline is August 1st. If interested, please contact
>panel organizer Xiang He (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, NYU)
>at (xh230 /at/ nyu.edu)
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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