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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP "Masks of Threat: Understanding new South Asian
Identities in Motion", edited volume of essays

> H-ASIA
> April 4, 2012
>
> Call for papers for edited volume of essays: "Masks of Threat:
> Understanding new South Asian Identities in Motion"
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> CFP: Essay Collection Titled: Masks of Threat: Understanding new South
> Asian Identities in Motion
>
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-08-15
> Date Submitted: 2012-04-02
> Announcement ID: 193675
>
> CFP: Essay Collection Titled:
> Masks of Threat: Understanding new South Asian Identities in Motion
>
> In contemporary narrative and cultural representations, how has the figure
> of the South Asian subject morphed gradually into a site of
> threatracially, economically, politically, and socio-culturally? In
> violent enactments of identity and difference over the past few decades of
> history, how has dominant economic centers of the world reimagined the
> South Asian subject in migration? How has this understanding complicated
> the model minority status quos and how has it rerouted discourses of
> belonging and unbelonging?
>
> In this edited collection of essays, special focus will be paid on
> examining the identity of the migrant and/or the highly educated elite
> economic and intellectual laborer with origins in South Asia, in literary
> and/or visual and cultural texts to understand the new definitions of
> terror, terrorism, and threatening, or unhomed subjects. Ultimately, this
> volume will examine an alternative cartography of belonging for the South
> Asian in the global world enmeshed in the complicated networks of
> citizenship, racial and ethnic identities, and human rights within
> contemporary geopolitical and socio-historical contexts.
>
> Please submit 250 word MS-Word abstracts by May 15th, 2012 to:
> de.aparajita@gmail.com. Please include a brief bio as a separate
> attachment.
>
> Final submission of selected papers for this collection is due by August
> 15th, 2012, also by email in MS-word attachments to
> de.aparajita@gmail.com.
> Completed essays are 7500 words, MS-Word formatted, double-spaced, and
> should only use the updated MLA format citation.
>
>
> Aparajita De
> Assistant Professor
> Towson University
> 8000 York Road
> Towson, MD 21252
> Email: de.aparajita@gmail.com
>
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