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:
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
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.
Notify the organizer of your seminar AND
the ACLA Secretariat immediately if you are unable to attend the conference.
Communicate all special requests to the
seminar organizer and the Secretariat so as to ensure that they are considered.
Add info@acla.org to your list of
"safe senders" in your email account, ensuring that email communications
with you will be delivered.
Please review your information carefully
before you submit. Contact info@acla.org with any questions.
Hotel Block
If you are making travel plans already,
please note that the ACLA has a block of rooms set aside at the Sheraton Grand
Hotel where the conference will be held. Please reserve your room using the following
link:
https://book.passkey.com/event/49969423/owner/2233/home Please note that the reservation MUST be made
using this link in order to secure the special rate.
Sincerely,
ACLA Secretariat
info@acla.org
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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.
Notify the organizer of your seminar AND
the ACLA Secretariat immediately if you are unable to attend the conference.
Communicate all special requests to the
seminar organizer and the Secretariat so as to ensure that they are considered.
Add info@acla.org to your list of
"safe senders" in your email account, ensuring that email
communications with you will be delivered.
Please review your information carefully
before you submit. Contact info@acla.org with any questions.
Hotel Block
If you are making travel plans already,
please note that the ACLA has a block of rooms set aside at the Sheraton Grand
Hotel where the conference will be held. Please reserve your room using the
following link:
https://book.passkey.com/event/49969423/owner/2233/home Please note that the reservation MUST be made
using this link in order to secure the special rate.
Sincerely,
ACLA Secretariat
info@acla.org
Twitter | Facebook | ACLA |
Copyright © 2019, American Comparative
Literature Association, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you
are or were a member of the American Comparative Literature Association.
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Tel: (312) 600-8072
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