The Division on Asian American Literature is sponsoring 3 panels for the 2007 MLA convention in Chicago. Please contact panel organizers listed below with submission or queries.
----------------"Racial Allegory"
Narratives about Asian Americans that do not explicitly reference racializedbodies/ subjects. How does "Asianness" circulate symbolically? To what end? Theorizing implications of invoking race metaphorically in American literature and culture. 1-page abstract, c.v., 15 March; Leslie Bow lbow@wisc.edu
"Poetry's Place in Asian American Studies"
Roundtable addressing the relative lack of attention to poetry in shaping the field and offering conceptual frameworks for why poetry matters. Polemical presentations especially welcome. 1-page abstract, c.v., 15 March; tina.chen@vanderbilt.edu.
"Marketing Childhood/Adolescen ce in Asian American Literature"
Theoretical analyses of texts/graphic novels about childhood/adolescence and/or targeted for youths, contextualized by examining their publishing, networking and/or marketing. 1-page abstract, c.v., 15 March; greta.niu@rochester.edu
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