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Asian Literatures

• 2013

• 8. Fragmented Lives, Hybridity, and the Politics of Identity in South Asian Muslim Women's Writing

• 47. Critical Debates in Sinophone Postcolonial Studies: Where Do We Go Now?

• 83. Mapping a New Ethics for a Globalized South Asia

• 131. Inscribing the Self: Social Communication and the Materiality of Writing in East Asia

• 180. The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race under Asian Empires

• 211. Literary Criticism in East Asia

• 246. Trauma Studies and Contemporary East Asian Literature and Film: Trauma, Memory, and History

• 262. Orienting Students for Crossing Cultural Barriers: Case Studies in Chinese and Japanese

• 267. Translation in Sri Lankan Conflict Literature: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implications

• 315. Past and Future in North Korean Literature and Culture

• 323. Cultural Contexts: In Honor of Galal Walker's Contribution to the Study of Chinese

• 334. Gao Xingjian on Literature and Theater

• 376. Cultures of Occupation and Boycott

• 404. The Future of Chinese in the MLA

• 455. The Parchment of Kashmir

• 489. Contemporary Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies: Beyond Area Studies

• 520. Beyond Bias, Binary, and Border: Mapping Out the Future of Comparative Rhetorics

• 555. Reciprocal Accessibility: What Can the MLA and East Asian Divisions Achieve Together?

• 600. Critical Theory in Premodern East Asian Literature

• 638. A Creative Conversation with Gao Xingjian

• 680. Imagining Paradise: Nature, Ecology, and Culture in Kashmiri Literature

• 702. South Asian-izing the Digital Humanities

• 739. Across the Global Pacific: Transregional and Transmedia Cultural (Re)Production

• 764. Mapping Pre-1965 South Asian America: Race, Empire, and Transnational Mobilization

• 2012

• 57. Adaptation and Refraction in East Asia to 1900

• 119. Toward New Humanity: Theoretical Interventions into Literature in Modern Chinese Aesthetics

• 189. Transpacific Formalisms of the Mid-Twentieth Century

• 226. West Asia and the World Literature Debate (session canceled)

• 275. Recognition as Critique

• 297. Radical Friendships in South Asia

• 331. Literary City in South Asia

• 347. A Creative Conversation with the Chinese Poet Xi Chuan

• 396. Chinese Narrative, World Literature: The Appeal and the Peril of Being Worldly

• 428. Technology and Chinese Literature and Language

• 475. Literature and Social Activism in South Asia

• 515. Urban Culture: Literature and the City in Early Modern Asia

• 552. China in the World: Literature, Geopolitics, and World Culture

• 605. Modern East Asian Literature, World Literature

• 654. "Continuous Voyage Orders": From Komagata Maru to the Aftermath of 9/11

• 659. Chinese Biopolitics, Global Aesthetics

• 726. Practices of Creolization in Southeast Asian Sinophone Culture

• 2011

• 38. Narrating Tortured Lives in East Asia

• 160. Word and Image: The Illustrated Text in Premodern East Asia

• 173. The Avant-Garde in Contemporary Chinese Poetry

• 187. Persistence of Empire: Hispanic Asian and African Literatures and Postcolonial Nationhood, 1885+2004

• 192. Translating Codes across Cultures

• 227. Class Conflict in South Asian Cultural Production

• 280. Constituting War Trauma in East Asian Literature and Film

• 321. National and Transnational Representations in South Asian Film and Fiction

• 348. Interpretations of the Imagined and the Real: Narrating Lives in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

• 389. Feminist Transnational Spaces: Narrating Lives of Asian Women

• 442. Postcolonial Diasporas

• 483. China, World Literature, and the Shape of the Humanities

• 512. Other Sounds, Other Worlds: Literary Soundscapes in Asian and Transnational Contexts

• 557. Toru Dutt

• 585. The Transpacific Nineteenth Century

• 652. Cultural Flows through Popular Media

• 703. History and Memory in East Asia

• 745. Tao Te Ching and English Translators

• 819. (Re)Presentation of the "Other" by the South Asian Diaspora

• 2009

• 90. Environmental Degradation and (Post)Colonial East Asian Literatures

• 109. Anxiety and Transition in East Asia

• 148. Migration and the Crisis of Loyalty

• 241. Tao Te Ching and Its English Translations

• 297. Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia

• 406. The Translated Modernities of East Asia: National Identities Found in Translation

• 459. Terrorism and Violence in South Asia

• 505. Margins of the Sinophone: Chinese, Latin American, and African American Contexts

• 582. Inter-Asian Translation: Cultural Appropriation and Exchange in Premodern Asia

• 603. The Translated Modernities of East Asia: The Politics of Translation in National, Intra-Asian, and International Perspectives

• 670. South Asian Modernities

• 686. The South Asian Diaspora in Africa

• 2008

• 47. Emerging Trends and Voices in South Asian Literatures

• 99. Public Intellectuals and South Asian Literature

• 136. East Asian Modernities: Global, Vernacular, or Marginal Narratives—Alternative Visions of National Modernity

• 183. What Is in a Wall? A Conceptualization

• 299. Women's Literary Voices: Self-Writing across East Asian Traditions

• 332. Mo Yan and the Reemergence of Literary Independence in Post-Mao China

• 409. Translating Mo Yan

• 458. Textual Conditions in Premodern East Asia

• 487. Comedy, Carnival, and Consanguinity in the Fiction of Mo Yan

• 554. East Asian Modernities: Global, Vernacular, or Marginal Narratives

• 637. Mapping Textual Territories in East Asia

• 695. Literary Experimentalism in East Asia

• 738. Globalization and Culture in South Asia

• 2007

• 34. Popular Culture and the South Asian Imagination

• 103. Reframing Vietnam: Recent Vietnamese Film and Culture

• 185. Person and Persona, Subject and Subjectivity

• 216. Multiculturalism and the Idea of Ethnic Identity

• 239. Religion in South Asian Languages and Literatures

• 261. Lyricism in Modern East Asian Literatures

• 358. Writing the Place in Premodern East Asian Literature

• 428. Family Values in East Asian Literatures

• 476. Filiality in Chinese Literature and Culture

• 524. Protocols of Love

• 550. Representations of India in the Western Mind: Theorizing the Past

• 612. Spaces of Uncertainty: Political Geographies, Personal Histories, and the Partition of India

• 684. Race and Empire in East Asian Literature

• 2006

• 62. Alternative Histories in Asian Literature

• 122. West Asian and Mediterranean Literatures: Pedagogical Approaches

• 140. Minorities and Their Relation to Secularism

• 181. Colonialism and East Asian Cultures

• 248. Contestations of the Nation in East Asia

• 296. A Reading by Caroline Bergvall and Yoko Tawada

• 406. Bollywood Nationalism in the Age of Globalization

• 452. Material Culture in East Asian Literature

• 477. Transpacific Configuration of Nation and Subjectivity

• 595. Premodern Japanese Comedic Techniques: Across Cultures and Genres

• 631. Gender Transgressions in East Asian Literature and Culture

• 674. Text and Image: Crossing Borders of Time and Space

• 703. South Asian Literature: Dialectics of the Cosmopolitan and the Indigenous

• 2005

• 23. Translating Language and Space in the Writings of Yoko Tawada

• 36. Nature and Nation in East Asian Literature and Film

• 195. Remapping "Home" in a Divided Land: The Partition of British India

• 249. Citizenship, Culture, and Diaspora in South Asian Literature

• 252. Language(s) and Interlanguage(s) in East Asia

• 264. Emerging Identities: Gender and Globalization

• 319. East Asian Canon in a Multimedia World

• 376. Cold War Postcolonialism: Intertwined Histories in East Asian Literature and Film

• 455. Graphic Discourse in East Asia

• 461. The Korean Wave and Asian Cinema in the Global Market

• 575. Public or Postcolonial? South Asian Writers as Intellectuals

• 673. Postmodernity, Postcoloniality, and Cross-Culturalism of East, West, and Africa

• 759. Memoirs of Exile: Ved Mehta and Others

• 2004

• 56. Hybridity's Children: Paradigm Shifts in Contemporary South Asian Literature

• 140. Miscegenation as Metaphor: Themes of Purity and Contamination in East Asian Literature

• 197. Asian Cinema: Nation, Region, World

• 421. Popular Culture in East Asia I: Family and Gender

• 436. Varieties of South Asian Feminism

• 499. Reconstructing Identities in a Post-9/11 World

• 530. Framing the Secular: South Asian Contexts

• 622. Popular Culture in East Asia II: Naming and Power Politics

• 637. The Dissemination of Literati Culture in East Asia

• 674. Violence Justified? Revenge in Contemporary Chinese Literature

• 762. Race, Caste, and Class in South Asian Literatures

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