"Eastern Thought in the Americas"
RIAS Vol. 21, Fall-Winter (1/2028)

This issue of RIAS invites contributions on the theme of “Making Trouble: Subversions and Reclamations in American Imaginaries.” Engaging ongoing debates in global American Studies on power, representation, dissent, and cultural transformation, the issue seeks contributions that examine how American cultural, political, and social imaginaries are challenged, reworked, and reclaimed across diverse historical and geographical contexts. It invites interdisciplinary perspectives from the global field of American Studies and welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide.

The issue will trace how American cultural production “makes trouble” through formal innovation, moral ambiguity, and radical redefinitions of kinship and care. Thereby, it will highlight “trouble” as an ethical and aesthetic stance within American studies—one that values fracture and contradiction as generative sites of thought and belonging. In keeping with the mission of the International American Studies Association and RIAS, the issue encourages transnational, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed approaches to the study of the Americas and their global entanglements...

Read entire CFP here: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/announcement/view/260