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Chamada para publicação da revista Transmodernity

Início: Fim: Data de abertura: Data de encerramento: Países: Estados Unidos

Chamada para artigos, Estudos Luso-Hispânicos

A Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic, uma publicação da eScholarship que faz parte da Universidade da Califórnia, está com chamada aberta para o número temático: «Another Turn of the Screw toward Luso/Hispanic Whiteness Studies: Theorising and Decentring Luso/Hispanic Whiteness», a ser publicado em junho de 2018. As pessoas interessadas podem enviar as suas propostas (em inglês, português ou espanhol) até ao dia 1 de fevereiro de 2018.

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Call for Papers
Special Issue Transmodernity Spring 2018
Another Turn of the Screw toward Luso/Hispanic Whiteness Studies
Theorising and Decentring Luso/Hispanic Whiteness

Guest Editor, JM. Persánch

To date, extensive scholarly research already exists in the field of Whiteness Studies. Stemming from, and overlapping with, some premises of Post-Colonial Studies, this new discipline soon found home in the American, British, Australian and South African academies to examine white racial formations. Thus, in its beginnings, scholars shifted their focus from scrutinizing minoritized ‘Others’ to examining how white hegemonic identities came to be placed in relation to concepts of normalcy, privilege and oppression. However, the field of Whiteness Studies has mostly engaged with conceptions of whiteness within Anglo-centred racial traditions, and is thus written in English and concerned about the white presence in former British settler-nations, thus one could claim that the lack of relationality in the field is indeed even greater than initially assumed. If we are to recognize that a central tenet of Whiteness Studies entails a re-evaluation of History, and conduct a rereading of cultural products in racial terms to assess the effects of the structural paradigms of whiteness in contemporary societies, the following question rapidly arises: Can we fully understand the nature of white racial formation, its historical strategies and cultural forms of structural power in isolation? Unfortunately, with very rare exceptions, there has been a lack in response to, and engagement with, this phenomenon in the field of Luso-Hispanic Studies, where most critical commentators still seem to be focusing their interests and efforts on examining subalterns’ identities and representations. Whilst these types of studies are very important and successfully provide explanations, as to how minority groups are racialized and minoritized, I often find that they do not offer enough insight into the processes by which the structures of difference and the processes of legitimization operate and replicate in society. At this juncture, I would suggest that a greater analytical scope concentrating on several ‘types’ of white cultural paradigms including Luso/Hispanic/Latin American societies is much needed for our understanding of historic racial dialectics, as well as the persisting racial effects in contemporary societies. I am also incited to say that the study of Hispanic Whiteness –in coalescence with other world white identities– is essential to enrich our comprehension of both contemporary racial signifying practices and white identity formation(s). I anticipate that the emergence of a Hispanic Whiteness Studies field would benefit a transcultural dialogue about whiteness exponentially, creating the basis for a better understanding of racial conceptualizations and societal dynamics within a larger context.

In short, this call for papers aims to conceptualize whiteness from the Luso/Hispanic/Latino tradition. To do so, theoretical, literary and film papers are welcome. Suggested topics are, but not limited to, the following:

  • What does it mean to be white Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino?
  • Conceptualizing Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino whiteness
  • Decolonizing Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino whiteness
  • Decentring Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino whiteness
  • Intersections of Modernity and Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino whiteness
  • Intersections of class, gender, religion, nation(alism) with Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino whiteness
  • Mapping whiteness within an ‘ecology of knowledge’
  • White Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino Post-Colonial nostalgia
  • White Spanish/Hispanic/Latino Decolonial resistance
  • Self-representation of white Lusos/Spanish/Hispanics/Latinos in literature and film
  • Representation of white Lusos/Spanish/Hispanics/Latinos by Non-White Lusos/Hispanic/Latinos in film and literature
  • Equatorial-Guinean representation of Spanish whiteness in literature
  • Moroccan representation of Spanish whiteness in literature written in Spanish
  • African-American and Indigenous representation of Luso/Spanish/Hispanic/Latino whiteness in literature and film

Deadline: February 1, 2018.

This special issue is scheduled to be published in the beginning of June, 2018.

Submissions are addressed to the Guest Editor JM. Persánch (Western Oregon University) perezsanchezj@mail.wou.edu

Website: http://escholarship.org/uc/ssha_transmodernity


Fonte: H-NET

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