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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Orienting Orwell: Asian & Global Perspectgives on
George Orwell, special issue of _Concentric: Literary & Cultural Studies_
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> November 27, 2012
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> Call for Papers - Orienting Orwell: Asian and Global Perspectives on
> George Orwell (journal special issue _Concentric: Literary and Cultural
> Studies_
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> Call for Papers - Orienting Orwell: Asian and Global Perspectives on
> George Orwell (journal special issue)
>
> Location: Taiwan
> Call for Papers Date: 2013-08-15
> Date Submitted: 2012-11-26
> Announcement ID: 199028
> Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 40 No. 1 | March 2014 Guest
> Editors: John Rodden & Henk Vynckier
> Deadline for Submissions: August 15, 2013
>
> While George Orwell's status in Britain, the US, and the West generally
> speaking is beyond question, his place in Asian and other non-Western
> cultural discourses has been less certain. From raucous democracies to
> hermit kingdoms, contemporary Asia features varied societal and political
> models, and George Orwell's writings consequently have been received very
> differently from country to country. For example, in Myanmar, the former
> Burma, Burmese Days (1934) is hailed as a first-class anti-colonial
> document, but Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-four, and the rest of his work
> are banned.
>
> To be sure, Orwell is profoundly linked to and deserving of consideration
> in the Asian cultural context. He was born in Bengal, served five years in
> the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and returned from the experience a
> firm anti-colonialist. Already in his first book, Down and Out in Paris
> and London (1933), he reflected on the fate of Indian rickshaw pullers and
> gharry ponies while discussing his experiences as a dishwasher in Paris,
> and such texts as A Hanging, Shooting an Elephant, and Burmese Days have
> become classics of English colonial literature. From 1941 to 1943 he was
> employed by the Indian section of the BBCs Eastern Service. His private
> correspondence, book reviews, and essays further demonstrate his lifelong
> interest in the question of Indian independence, the future of Palestine,
> decolonization throughout Asia and around the world, and new English
> writings from Asia. Yet in Nineteen Eighty-four, a very different Asia
> looms large, for Oceania, the Anglo-American superpower in this dystopian
> classic, is permanently threatened by the two rival global powers of
> Eurasia and Eastasia.
>
> The purpose of this special issue is to invite essays that further Orwell
> scholarship in an Asian as well as global context and, in doing so, make
> possible new perspectives on one of the most influential authors of the
> 20th century.
>
> **********
>
> John Rodden is an independent scholar located in Austin, Texas. He has
> taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Texas at Austin,
> and Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. He has published ten books on
> Orwell, including The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and
> Claiming of St. George Orwell (1989) and The Cambridge Introduction to
> George Orwell (2012). He has also published critically acclaimed
> monographs on the New York intellectuals, the politics of culture in
> Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the art of the
> literary interview.
>
> Henk Vynckier is the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and
> Literature at Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. He has published on
> Orwell, collecting as a literary theme, travel literature, and the
> literary legacy of the Chinese Maritime Customs Agency (1854-1950). He is
> also an honorary researcher in the Research Center for Humanities and
> Social Sciences at the Academia Sinica contributing to an
> interdisciplinary research project on Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime
> Customs Service.
>
> **********
>
> Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed journal
> published two times per year by the Department of English, National Taiwan
> Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Concentric is devoted to offering
> innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the
> transcultural exchange of ideas. While committed to bringing Asian-based
> scholarship to the world academic community, Concentric welcomes original
> contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds.
>
> Each issue of Concentric publishes groups of essays on a special topic as
> well as papers on more general issues. The focus can be on any historical
> period and any region. Any critical method may be employed as long as the
> paper demonstrates a distinctive contribution to scholarship in the field.
>
> Editor, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
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