Papers on Language and Literature has released a call for papers for a special issue. The mid-20th century anticolonial struggles for liberation and independence across the global south produced a new aesthetics of opposition and resistance to hegemonic and colonial powers. The literature produced during this period also provided a less overt aesthetics of subversion. […]
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CFP for panel at 2017 ASECS National Conference, March 30-April 2, Minneapolis In The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, historian Vincent Brown argues, “If people looked to the past to find the roots of contemporary forms of inequality, domination, and terror, rather than the origins of freedom, rights, and universal
The history of modern sport has been defined by a wide range of labor struggles, from individual contract disputes to collective acts of workplace dissent, protest, and unionism. Unlike in many industries, the labor politics of sport have a mass audience. Not simply detached observers, fans have played prominent and critical roles in shaping the
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From January 5-7, 2017, the Japan Studies Association will meet in Honolulu to share its continuous and new pedagogical and research interests in Japan’s literary and cultural traditions, historical and economic developments, sociopolitical and religious past and present. The organizers invite proposals for individual presentations, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary panels, roundtables on pedagogy and teaching innovation
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Over the past three decades, there has been increasing interest in both Fan Studies and Medieval Studies in the relationship between medieval literary culture and fan fiction (popular, ‘unofficial’, fan-generated creative writing that participates in a pre-existing fictional ‘universe’ and uses its characters). Many Fan Studies scholars have seen fanfiction as the heir to the
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