Call for Papers: Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 Panels at the 2017 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention.
Davenport Grand Hotel, Spokane, Washington
October 12-14, 2017
We welcome paper proposals that address a range of critical issues and themes relating to modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Home, displacement, travel, and migration
- Violence, trauma, memory, and forgetting
- Folk tradition, the supernatural, and the issue of belief
- Animals, humans, and post-humanism
- Ecology, landscape, time and space
- Gender, class, and ethnicity
- Author, auteur, and adaptation
- Sinophone literature and cinema
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a short biography to <rmmla2017@gmail.com> by March 1, 2017. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent out no later than March 30, 2017.
Chairs:
Yanjie Wang, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies,
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, yanjie.wang@lmu.edu
I-In Chiang, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Rhodes College, chiangi@rhodes.edu
Yiju Huang, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Fordham University, yhuang139@fordham.edu
Yanhong Zhu, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures,
Washington and Lee University, zhuy@wlu.edu