[UPDATE] 2011 Special Number of the South Asian Review: South Asian Diasporas, 15 Aug 2011

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UPDATE: 2011 Special Number of the South Asian Review
South Asian Diasporas

South Asian Review, the peer-reviewed journal of the South Asian Literary Association, invites submissions for its 2011 special number, Volume 32, Number 3, devoted to South Asian Diasporas. South Asian Review calls for papers that examine the work of diasporic writers, artists, and filmmakers of South Asian origin from around the world. The papers should address individual works or groups of works from a scholarly vantage point. Topics of interest may include diasporic writers from the colonial and postcolonial periods, first-, second- or third-generation diasporic writers, South Asian writers in Africa or the South Pacific, Indo-Caribbean writers, and South Asian writers in North America and Britain. We are also interested in essays that explore mass displacements and cross-border migrations within South Asia—such as those engendered by the partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947, and once again in 1971, and their ongoing aftermath, or the civil war in Sri Lanka—and the identities and conflicts they have spawned in terms of their long-term legacies. Critical essays that discuss diasporic art, literature, and culture under such rubrics as the diasporic imaginary, diaspora politics, diasporic hybridity, diaspora-homeland relations, "old" versus "new" diaspora, the enduring construction of migrants as strangers and outsiders, diaspora and empire, diaspora and the nation-state, clandestine population movements within South Asia, and diaspora and globalization are also welcome.

Articles of 15-25 pages, prepared in accordance with the MLA style, along with an abstract of 8-10 lines and a biographical note of 50 words, should be sent electronically by August 15, 2011 to Dr. B. P. Giri at BP.Giri@Dartmouth.edu and Dr. Priya Kumar at priya-kumar@uiowa.edu.

Inquiries regarding book reviews should be addressed to Professor P. S. Chauhan at chauhanp@arcadia.edu. For further information about the South Asian Review, please refer to the SAR website at: http://www.upj.pitt.edu/southasianreview.

All inquiries concerning this special number of the South Asian Review should be addressed to:

Dr. B. P. Giri
Co-guesteditor
Department of English
HB 6032
Dartmouth College
New Hampshire 03755
USA

Dr. Priya Kumar
Co-guesteditor
Department of English
308 EPB
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
USA