{"id":22276,"date":"2024-03-14T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw\/?p=22276"},"modified":"2024-03-14T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:35:08","slug":"elementor-22276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ntnu.edu.tw\/index.php\/en\/2024\/03\/14\/elementor-22276\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP–Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 51 No. 1 \u201cReorienting Singapore Literature\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
<\/strong>Vol. 51 No. 1 | March 2025
<\/strong>Call for Papers
<\/strong>Reorienting Singapore Literature
<\/strong>Guest Editors
<\/strong>Angelia M. C. Poon (Nanyang Technological University)
<\/strong>Iping Liang (<\/strong>National Taiwan Normal University<\/strong>)
<\/strong>Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2024
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Before its present incarnation as a nation and global city, Singapore has been historically envisaged within larger geographical, cultural and sociopolitical entities and imaginaries such as the Malay World (Alam Melayu) and Nanyang or the South Seas. Specific to different historical moments in its ancient, pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial past, Singapore\u2019s strategic location has seen it serve as a contact zone for multiple cultural exchanges and a site for plurilingual and hybridized identities. The term \u201cNanyang,\u201d the South Seas, has been historically associated with the huge bodies of oceanic waters in the south of continental China, flowing freely across the South China Sea, the Java Sea, the Indian Ocean and beyond. Brian Bernards notes in Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature <\/em>(2015) that \u201cdespite the diverse backgrounds of the Chinese travelers\u2014they imagined this region singularly as the \u2018South Seas\u2019\u201d (xi). Many of the Chinese expatriates, such as Khoo Seok Wan (1874-1941), Yu Dafu (1896-1945), Lin Yutang (1895-1976) and others, came to Singapore and became writers of \u201cNanyang Literature.\u201d Putting Yu Dafu in dialogue with Suchen Christine Lim, Bernards regards the \u201cevolution of the Nanyang as a postcolonial literary trope of the Chinese travel, migration, settlement and creolization in Southeast Asia\u201d (3). In other words, the very conception of the \u201cNanyang\u201d signifies a centrifugal force away from the center.

Pre-colonial Singapore was for centuries part of Alam Melayu. One of its monikers, \u201cPulau Ujong,\u201d refers to Singapore\u2019s location south of the Malay Peninsula while another name, Temasek,\u201d meaning \u201ca town by the sea,\u201d manifests a deep-rooted Malay indigeneity in the area. Intersecting the Malay Peninsula and the Malacca Strait, the island has been a contact zone for Malays, Chinese, Indians and many other groups. The various names of the island signify its complex history and the multifarious ethnicity of its inhabitants. According to the Malay Annuals<\/em>, the Palembang Prince Sang Nila Utama, arguably a descendant of Alexander the Great, spotting a lion while on a hunting trip, gave the island the legendary name of \u201cSingapura,\u201d the Malay name which was derived from the Sanskrit, meaning \u201cLion City.\u201d It is the potent animal of the lion which inspired the poet Edwin Thumboo to invoke the mythical figure of the \u201cMerlion\u201d\u2014 \u201cHalf-beast, half-fish \/ This powerful creature of land and sea,\u201d standing by the city.

Please send complete papers of 6,000-10,000 words, 5\u20138 keywords, and a brief biography to concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw<\/a> by July 31, 2024. Manuscripts should follow the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers<\/em>. Except for footnotes, which should be single-spaced, manuscripts must be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman. Please consult our style guide at http:\/\/www.concentric-literature.url.tw<\/a>.

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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studie<\/em><\/strong>s, indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Concentric<\/em> 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<\/em> welcomes original contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. In each issue of Concentric<\/em> we publish groups of essays on a special topic as well as papers on more general issues. http:\/\/www.concentric-literature.url.tw\/<\/a>.

For submissions or general inquiries, please contact us at:<\/strong> concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw.<\/a>

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