Call for Papers: Amerasia Journal

"An Asian Canadian Issue"
Guest co-editors: Guy Beauregard and Henry Yu
Expected publication date: Fall 2007

Asian American and Asian Canadian histories have long been
intertwined, from the migration of Chinese gold seekers from
California to British Columbia in the 1850s to the anti-Asian
Bellingham Riots of 1907 that crossed the border to Vancouver's
Chinatown and the Japanese Canadian Powell Street community. This
historical intertwining has extended into and informed Asian American
knowledge production. From the reclaiming of the writings of the
Eaton sisters, to critical readings of Joy's Kogawa's novel Obasan as
a canonical Japanese American text of internment, to the significant
role the work of Richard Fung has played in Asian American queer and
postcolonial projects, Asian Canadian cultural texts have played a
central and often unacknowledged role in Asian American studies.
More recently, scholarship on transnationality has considered the
intersections of race and space in Vancouver in the late 1980s and
early 1990s to be a key site in understanding emerging forms of
flexible citizenship and global capitalism.

This special issue of Amerasia Journal will bring together critical
and creative work to provide a renewed focus on the various ways
Asian Canadian issues have developed since the Asian Canadian
movement in the 1970s. The issue's major focus will be on:

* Asian Canadian community activism
* Asian Canadian intellectual and institutional histories
* Intersections between Asian Canadian and Asian American
histories and texts
* Asian Canadian studies as a site of contestation in the past,
present, and future

We also welcome contributions that address in a broadly
cross-disciplinary manner some of the following topics:

* Asian Canadian historiography
* Asian Canadian memory projects
* Asian Canadian canon formation
* Asian Canadian poetics
* Asian Canadian queer projects
* Asian Canadian postcolonial legacies
* Asian Canadian transnationalities
* Asian Canadian pedagogies

We invite contributors to submit a two-page abstract outlining the
title, topic, and scope of their essay as an attached file (in MS
Word or Rich Text Format) by November 30, 2005 to Guy Beauregard,
Guest Co-editor, at guy@mx.nthu.edu.tw; Henry Yu, Guest Co-editor, at
henryyu@ucla.edu; and Russell Leong, Editor, at rleong@ucla.edu.
Please note that essays for this special issue will be refereed by
outside reviewers to determine final editorial inclusion.

Don T. Nakanishi, Ph.D.
Director and Professor
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
3230 Campbell Hall
PO Box 951546, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546
phone: (310) 825-2974
e-mail: dtn@ucla.edu
Please visit the Center's web site: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc