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淡江評論第42卷第2期誠摯邀稿中
Call for Papers
Tamkang Review
Recently, nation-based paradigms of literary or cultural studies have come under attack. Doing literary or cultural studies within the national boundary, as Wai Chee Dimock has argued, translates into a methodology that privileges the nation above all else. The field can legitimize itself as a field only because the nation does the legitimizing. Such a methodology tends to replicate and disseminate national cultural values and ways of living, creating an image of the nation as an isolated, self-contained entity, different from and exceptional to the rest of the world. Transnational studies, literary or cultural, can denaturalize the notion of the nation as a culturally homogenous sovereignty with a shared language, culture, and history, and open up the possibility of fluid cultural flows, ideoscapes, and ethnoscapes (Arjun Appadurai).
For some critics, however, transnational is a controversial word. It could mean very different things to scholars in different fields, and it is probably futile to seek to contain its proliferating meanings. It has a tangled history with globalization and is easily associated with (U.S.-based) multi-corporation economic system. Moreover, it has been pointed out that academic transnationalism, often funded by government and businesses, especially in the U.S., more often than not serves their purposes. If this is the case, it is to be doubted whether transnational discourses could dismantle nationalist ideologies. If transnationalism offers a new paradigm, it also fuels new controversies.
The special issue provides a forum for scholars interested in literary and cultural studies to further explore transnationalism. We welcome submissions in relation to (but not limited to) the following topics:
**Transnational vs. nation-based literary/cultural studies
**Transnationalism and globalization
**Literatures in English
**American vs. Hemispheric American Studies
**English or American Literary History vs. Transatlantic Literary History
**Transnationalism, race/ethnicity, and gender
**Transnationalism and migration/diaspora
**Transnationalism and popular culture
**Transnationalism and travel writing
Please note:
1. Tamkang Review only publishes papers in English which are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
2. Please send your MLA-styled manuscript, an abstract (no more than 250 words), a list of no more than 10 keywords, and a curriculum vitae as Word-attachments to tfwx@www2.tku.edu.tw.
3. The manuscript should be anonymous. Your name and affiliation should only appear in the curriculum vitae.
For further questions, please address your inquiry to:
Robin Tsai 蔡振興
rnchtsai@mail.tku.edu.tw
Professor
Department of English
Tamkang University
Tamsui, Taiwan
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