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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP UPDATE Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global
Modernisms, collection of essays
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> May 13, 2011
>
> UPDATED Call for papers: The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global
> Modernisms, anthology
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> UPDATE] The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms
>
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-05-15 (in 2 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-09
> Announcement ID: 185098
>
> The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms
>
> Proposal deadline: May 15, 2011.
>
> The success of Modernist studies is attributable in part to its early
> recognition of its global scope and ambitions. However, despite laudable
> attempts to engage cultural difference and cultural studies texts within
> the discipline, a disconnect remains between Northern European/U.S.
> transatlantic Modernist studies and global modernisms proper—from Hispanic
> and Brazilian "Modernismos" to Asian Modernisms to African Modernist
> works. In the history of Modernism/Modernity, for example, only one
> article has ever addressed the Spanish American modernist tradition. Very
> few have included examples of Asian or African modernisms. Our proposed
> collection seeks to develop a conversation about global modernisms in the
> broadest and most comparative sense.
>
> The theme of masks serves as a common ground for various global
> modernisms. From Japanese Kabuki masks, African spiritual masks, Mexican
> pre-Columbian masks, to the masks of Greek Theater, masks have played a
> prominent role in Modernist literary, cultural, and artistic discourses.
> We think of masks not only as a search for identity through connection
> with the past and incorporated into various works of the Modernist period,
> but also as a universal construct of modern existence, a simulacrum,
> representing that which we must be to survive, that which we aspire to be
> in our dreams, or that which we fear we truly are. In this sense, we might
> understand masks as a metaphor, a façade that serves to reveal, veil, or
> underscore the "truth," to describe the tensions and contradictions of
> Modernism in a given cultural context.
>
> The proposed anthology will be produced in English, and seeks to explore
> representations of masks in Modernist texts in all of their varieties.
> Imaginative, interdisciplinary and cultural studies approaches are
> encouraged. We also ask that your abstract specifically mentions the
> Modernism studied in your investigation and/or discipline. Please email
> 300-500-word proposals and a brief biography by May 15 to Andrew Reynolds,
> areynolds@wtamu.edu or Bonnie Roos, broos@wtamu.edu. Please forward as
> appropriate.
>
> Possible topics might include (but are in no way limited to) the
> following:
>
> • Masks in art, literature, cinema, dance, architecture, cultural studies,
> etc.
> • The "Masking" of Eurocentrism through foreign experience and exoticized
> representations
> • The use of fashion, kitsch and the everyday to "mask" artistic and
> literary intentionality
> • The theme of masks and play as a Modernist trope
> • Western vs. Non-Western masks during Modernism
> • Modernism "masking" colonialist and imperialist regimes
> • Masks as a part of ritual and performance in Modernist art and
> literature
> • Masks and the intersection of art and the body during Modernism
> • Visual and literary abstraction vs. realism through the use of masks
> • "Masking" gender roles during Modernism
> • The use of masks in folk traditions as represented in Modernism
> • Psychoanalysis as a method of seeing behind the mask
> • Robotics, Prosthesis or Cybernetics as masks of self
> • "Passing" as a form of Modernist mask
> • The mask as an iteration of the posthuman, decentered subject
> • Masking as a representation/precursor of the collective mind
> • Using masks to produce virtual and artificial spaces
> • Costuming, cosmetics and design
>
>
> Andrew Reynolds & Bonnie Roos
> Email: areynolds@wtamu.edu, broos@wtamu.edu
>
>
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