Abstract ACLA 2020 Portal 9 AM close September 23, 2019.

Hello all,

On behalf of the ACLA Annual Meeting 2020 Committee leadership group, you are invited to submit a paper proposal to the seminar organized by Dr. Jayshree Singh for ACLA 2020, held March 19-22 in Chicago.

Seminar theme - "Contemporary Short Stories: The Touchstones to Discover Cultural, Social, Political and Legal Strands of Experiences” invites abstract for papers. The full seminar description and link to submit your abstract is here:

https://www.acla.org/contemporary-short-stories-touchstones-discover-cultural-social-political-and-legal-strands

It would be a concerted and difficult effort to explain and to understand the socio-cultural and political-legal phenomena – in what way are the societies of the world are leveraged by the aesthetics of short story genre? Short stories’ genre is a sort of ‘literary Darwinism’ in order to reconstruct and regenerate invaluable insights through their literary work not only for the majority of the submerged population pre-occupied in mechanic schedule of life, but also for the dominant or domineering groups that involve in abatement of civility, culture and nature. Short stories directly or inadvertently respond to the economic and political surroundings through the extensive use of metaphorical language. Mostly they expose the narrow-minded protectionism and gender inequality. The short stories tender energetic and cognitive ties to evolve human mind to destroy self-destructive tendencies and to create melting-pot for survival, sustenance and prevention of mankind from being exploitative, violative and volatile. Michael S. Duke’s World of Modern Chinese Fiction speaks about catastrophic events of Modern Chinese History in Taiwan and Hong Kong inflicted due to Chinese historical travails from the late 1890s to the present day. Since after the failure of the hundred days’ reform of 1898, and the escape of Liang Qichao (1873-1929) to Japan, the Chinese writers have discovered the relevance of “spiritual transformation through literature in order to save the nation” (Lu Xun 1881-1936). Doris Lessing’s The Sun between Their Feet’- Collected African Stories poses a challenge to the previous ethnic canons that romance with cultural relativity and historiography of the text that “has conveyed a picture of Black people as being docile and imitative, stupid and parasitic children, primitives and buffoons” (Wright, Bobby. 1969). The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories, edited by Stephen Alter and Wimal Dissanayake raises voices of protest in opposition to the social and political structures and criticizes the narrow-minded school of linguistic protectionism that restrains national and international exposure. The book Unforgettable Heart: Short Stories by African-American Women 1859-1993, edited by Asha Kanwar outpours its literary sensibility upon the Civil Rights, Black Power and Women’s Liberation Movements of the Sixties, the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and the revolutionary rhetoric of Malcolm X. The book titled Cuentos Chicanos: A Short Story Anthology edited by Rudolph A Anaya and Antoniyo Marquez explicates social protest, social-political movement known as EL Movimie that not only enunciates the Declaration of Chicano’s right to the heritage within the American society, but it was an avenue for literary creativity that has captured the dimensions, nuances, subtleties and paradoxes of Chicano’s life and culture in Mexico. The Zubaan book of stories titled Inner Line by Indian women, canonizes the women’s dependency, deprivation and desolation in the Third World Cultural Studies. The Indian women writers in the short stories convey that oppressive structures, oppressive traditions and oppressive patriarchy marginalise women’s position and they develop low self-perception in the social and cultural contexts and in biosphere context with regard to oppressive predatory notions. Intizar Hussain’s Short Stories from Pakistan gives exploratory commentary regarding the changes that have occured in the society of Pakistan since after its independence in 1947 and the holocaust of communal partition faced by both India and Pakistan in 1948. The author problematizes the question of their historical-cultural continuity of their roots and identity. The Seminar aims to raise discussion with regard to political, legal, cultural and social occurrences and experiences - remembering home, logics of belonging, rewriting emotions of migration, exile, appropriating identity issues; remapping immigration, stratification and power, racialism in evolving ethnicity and minority tradition; global transformations on account of interracial consciousness, historical crossings of racial frontier, contemporary discourses of citizenship, politics of domesticity and beyond, essentialism in politics of global feminism etc.

Information about the ACLA conference and submission process through the website is copied below, and the deadline for your paper submissions is 9AM Eastern Standard Time on Monday September 23rd. If you have any questions about the seminar or would like to share your abstract in advance of submission, please email me (dr.jayshree.singh@gmail.com).

Abstracts with the limit of 150 words or 200 characters are invited for the above-mentioned seminar topic along with biodata in 50 characters. The abstracts are to be submitted through login of your account by accessing the webpage of https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting and paper-presenters are to open their account by signing in or signing up and until the acceptance is sent by ACLA organisers, no registration - fee is to be deposited. Paper submissions through the portal will open August 31st and close September 23rd, 2019.

Dr. Jayshree Singh

Associate Professor

Deptt. Of English,

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Bhupal Nobles University, Udaipur-313001

Rajasthan

India

Mobile: 91-9828375535

http://bnuniversity.ac.in/index.html

http://bninstitute.org/aboutus.html

https://jayshreesinghextaxsieinelt.blogspot.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jayshree_Singh

https://bninstitute.academia.edu/JayshreeSingh

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce that the paper submission portal for ACLA 2020 (Sheraton Grand Hotel, Chicago, March 19-22, 2020) is now open and available at https://www.acla.org/seminars. Follow the link to select a seminar for which you would like to submit a paper abstract. After you have clicked on the seminar, you will find a link at the top saying "Submit a paper for this seminar." Please fill out all necessary fields in the online form to propose a paper. Abstracts must be received by 9 AM EST on Monday, September 23, 2019.

Current ACLA guidelines specify that each ACLA member may submit only ONE PAPER to ONE SEMINAR for consideration for the 2020 Annual Meeting. We urge all prospective presenters to be in touch with seminar organizers prior to submission; contact information for seminar organizers is available on the page for each seminar.

Don't see the form to propose a paper?

Be sure to log in. Please note that this is your login information for your acla.org user account. If you do not have an account, you can create one. You do not need to purchase a membership to submit a paper proposal.

If you are logged in and the form is still not appearing for you on this page, it is because the system has detected that you have already proposed a paper.

Please contact info@acla.org if you have any questions.

A few helpful reminders

Submitting a paper here does NOT guarantee your participation in the conference. The organizer of the seminar to which you are submitting your paper will review and provisionally accept or decline your submission by Monday, September 30th at 9am EST.

The ACLA Program Committee will then review all seminar proposals during October and notify seminar organizers of acceptance or rejection during the first week of November.

As a participant, you agree to:

Be current in your ACLA membership and registered for the ACLA 2020 Annual Meeting by midnight PST Tuesday, January 15, 2020. Please note that 2020 Memberships and Registrations will be on sale beginning on Oct. 1, 2019.

Reply promptly to all requests for information from the seminar organizer and the ACLA Secretariat, including requests for final program copy.

Attend all sessions of the seminar.

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Please review your information carefully before you submit. Contact info@acla.org with any questions.

Hotel Block

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