CFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections
We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will be guest edited by Weihsin Gui (University of California-Riverside) and Cheryl Narumi Naruse (Tulane University).
Although there are numerous monographs and essay anthologies in the social sciences on the political, historical, and social ties between Southeast Asia and Australia, with one exception there has not been a recent substantive study of literary and cultural productions that arise because of such connections. José Wendell Capili’s recent literary history, Migrations and Mediations (2016), traces the emergence and growth of Southeast Asian diasporic writing in Australia from the 1970s to the present day. Building on Capili’s work, we welcome essays on authors such as Teo Hsu-ming, Lau Siew Mei, Simone Lazaroo, Beth Yahp, Julie Koh, Dewi Anggraeni, Nam Le, Hoa Pham, Merlinda Bobis, Arlene Chai among others.
The submission deadline is March 2, 2020. Essays should be 5500-7000 words in length and follow the latest MLA citation style and Antipodes guidelines. Arguments should address one or more of the following questions: What kind of relationships between specific Southeast Asian countries/cultures and Australia emerge in the literary text you are writing about? How does national and diasporic identity, migrant and refugee subjectivity, colonialism and racism/racial identification factor into these relationships? Does the specific genre of a literary text (for e.g. memoir, short story, lyric poetry) affect the structure and significance of these relationships and representations?
Please contact the guest editors Weihsin Gui (weihsing@ucr.edu) and Cheryl Narumi Naruse (cnaruse@tulane.edu) if you have any questions. All essays should be submitted through the journal’s website (see below) and must go through peer review and editorial evaluation per the journal’s standing policy. Antipodes is published by Wayne State University Press. More information about the journal and submission process can be found here: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/antipodes/
https://weihsingui.mla.hcommons.org/page/2/
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/antipodes/vol33/iss2/