Call for Papers
Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association, English Department of Soochow University
Contact email: tclra101@gmail.com
Children’s literature as a field of academic study has grown steadily in Taiwan over the past several years. Many other Asian nations have also seen a concerted interest in both the production and criticism of literature for young people. This interest has given rise to the creation of the Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TLRCA), a distinctly Taiwanese organization in the process of formation that is dedicated to the study of children’s and young adult literature. The first action of the TLRCA is this conference, held in conjunction with the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), that seeks to unite Asian scholars of children’s literature with each other and with scholars from regions where the study of children’s literature has had a longer tradition.
By focusing the theme for this conference on “the Child in the Book” we wish to interrogate the ways in which children and childhood are constructed in texts for young people from a variety of cultures and perspectives. What ideas lay behind the representation of children in literary texts? What assumptions are made about potential readers? If childhood is a shifting idea that is ideologically constructed, then how do these ideas shift between texts written by or for people in different national contexts? Do the historical ideas of childhood that have played such an extensive role in North American and European societies translate to other societies and cultures? While issues of childhood representations in all settings are welcome, of special concern is the representation of cultures and diversity in Asian contexts as well as with Asians in non-Asian settings.
The following are suggested topics, but other ideas implied by the title are also welcome:
Children and childhood in Asia
Children in translation
Comparative perspectives of childhood
Minority childhoods
Refugee children
Children and war
Immigration and childhood
Cross-cultural childhoods and experiences
Representations of adolescence
Representations of diversity
Questions of authenticity in representation
Childhood in graphic novels
Childhood in non-print media (film, theater, video games)
Media representations of children
Children as writers
Child narrators and focalizers
Please email abstracts fewer than 500 words with a brief resume to the TLRCA Conference Committee (tclra101@gmail.com).
Deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2012. Notification of acceptance is by March 30.
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/tclra2012/
cfp categories:
childrens_literature
international_conferences
professional_topics
Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association, English Department of Soochow University
Contact email: tclra101@gmail.com
Children’s literature as a field of academic study has grown steadily in Taiwan over the past several years. Many other Asian nations have also seen a concerted interest in both the production and criticism of literature for young people. This interest has given rise to the creation of the Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TLRCA), a distinctly Taiwanese organization in the process of formation that is dedicated to the study of children’s and young adult literature. The first action of the TLRCA is this conference, held in conjunction with the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), that seeks to unite Asian scholars of children’s literature with each other and with scholars from regions where the study of children’s literature has had a longer tradition.
By focusing the theme for this conference on “the Child in the Book” we wish to interrogate the ways in which children and childhood are constructed in texts for young people from a variety of cultures and perspectives. What ideas lay behind the representation of children in literary texts? What assumptions are made about potential readers? If childhood is a shifting idea that is ideologically constructed, then how do these ideas shift between texts written by or for people in different national contexts? Do the historical ideas of childhood that have played such an extensive role in North American and European societies translate to other societies and cultures? While issues of childhood representations in all settings are welcome, of special concern is the representation of cultures and diversity in Asian contexts as well as with Asians in non-Asian settings.
The following are suggested topics, but other ideas implied by the title are also welcome:
Children and childhood in Asia
Children in translation
Comparative perspectives of childhood
Minority childhoods
Refugee children
Children and war
Immigration and childhood
Cross-cultural childhoods and experiences
Representations of adolescence
Representations of diversity
Questions of authenticity in representation
Childhood in graphic novels
Childhood in non-print media (film, theater, video games)
Media representations of children
Children as writers
Child narrators and focalizers
Please email abstracts fewer than 500 words with a brief resume to the TLRCA Conference Committee (tclra101@gmail.com).
Deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2012. Notification of acceptance is by March 30.
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/tclra2012/
cfp categories:
childrens_literature
international_conferences
professional_topics
I've tweeted this. It looks as though it will be an amazingly rich conference. Are you going?
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. :o( You?
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