[ecrea] Call for Abstracts Special issue: “The Many Faces of Taiwaneseness in Contemporary Popular Culture”

EAST ASIAN JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE

Call for Abstracts

Special issue: “The Many Faces of Taiwaneseness in Contemporary 
Popular Culture”

Guest editor: Adina Zemanek


The end of the martial law ushered in an intensified process of 
“Taiwanization” in many social and cultural fields, and Taiwanese 
identity has arguably become the favourite concern of English-language 
scholarship on Taiwan. However, while local/national identity as 
formulated in the cinema (especially during the 1980s and 1990s) has 
received a considerable amount of scholarly attention, many other areas 
and aspects of popular culture have remained relatively unexplored. This 
issue seeks to throw some light onto such hitherto less visible areas, 
by focusing on the articulation of Taiwaneseness in cultural texts and 
practices from the most recent years. We welcome contributions that 
engage with the following questions: Does contemporary popular culture 
display a Taiwanese specificity, a local “cultural geometry”? What 
kind of cultural practices could define Taiwaneseness? Does popular 
culture openly undertake the task of constructing a Taiwanese identity, 
or is this task hidden between the lines? Does it assume (overtly or 
covertly) the existence of any kind of “other” for a contrastive 
definition of Taiwan? What is the relevance of other regions (such as 
mainland China, Japan, Korea, the United States, or others) in shaping 
what Taiwan now is? Does contemporary popular culture engage with issues 
of ethnicity? Does it revisit the past and employ history and memory for 
a national project?

We are looking for paper abstracts on the following topics: television 
shows, TV drama, cinema, comics, fashion, fandom, street-style, 
celebrity culture, the body, popular fiction, music, dance, contemporary 
forms of traditional popular culture (performing arts, or others).


Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2016


E-mail address for submissions: (adina.zemanek /at/ gmail.com) or 
(eajpopculture /at/ gmail.com) (with the subject heading abstract for Taiwanese 
Pop Culture)

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=238/

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