[eccr] CFP - Literature in the Age of Cultural Studies and Globalization

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>Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 31.2
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>Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 31.2, scheduled to come out in 
>July 2005, is inviting submissions. The special topic of this issue is 
>¡§Literature in the Age of Cultural Studies and Globalization.¡¨ We 
>encourage contributions from both Taiwan and the international community. 
>In addition to those addressing the special topic, articles on other 
>aspects of literature and culture are also welcome. The deadline for 
>submissions to this issue is December 31, 2004. For details about 
>manuscript preparation, please visit Concentric online at 
><http://www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw/concentric-literature/>http://www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw/concentric-literature/index.htm. 
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>Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is a refereed journal published 
>biannually (in January and July) by the Department of English, National 
>Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. While foregrounding the 
>Asian¡Xand particularly Taiwan¡Xperspectives, Concentric encourages all 
>perspectives and approaches including comparative and interdisciplinary 
>ones, and welcomes original contributions from diverse national and 
>cultural backgrounds which address any of the many dimensions of 
>literature(s) and culture(s). All correspondence should be addressed to 
>Concentric Editor, the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal 
>University, 162 Hoping East Road, Section 1, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C. 
>[e-mail: <mailto:concentric@deps. ntnu.edu.tw>(concentric /at/ deps.ntnu.edu.tw)]
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>Special topic: ¡§Literature in the Age of Cultural Studies and Globalization¡¨
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>                             Guest Editor: Ban Wang, Rutgers University
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>Literature as a discipline and institution, with its canons and methods of 
>criticism, has been eroding with the advent of cultural studies. Literary 
>scholars have flocked to film, material culture, pop culture, visual 
>culture, etc. Non-literary phenomena of society and culture are now 
>studied in terms of their sensuous and aesthetic functions. As a social 
>practice literature retains a spirit of imaginative creativity, 
>experiments with untried possibilities, and critiques the life of 
>administered consciousness in the human condition of alienation and 
>instrumentalization. Must this critical and creative potential of 
>¡§literature¡¨ be made (or forced to remain) compatible with cultural 
>studies? This issue welcomes contributions that consider the relation of 
>literature to cultural studies in an era of expanding transnational global 
>capital. Pressing questions may include: How can literature align with 
>cultural studies, so that each can exercise its own critical imagination? 
>How can literature resist the drive toward marketability and consumption 
>in cultural studies? How do aesthetic aspects of literature translate into 
>social and political practice? How does the concept of a world 
>(transnational or diasporic) literature contribute to or hamper the 
>pursuit of equality and justice among the shifting populations around the 
>world? How can literature be both a product for mass consumption and a 
>force of independent thinking? How can literature challenge hegemonic 
>power relations and ideologies?
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