[AIW] CFP-"Hemispheric Approaches to Native American Studies"

[Mag. Heidrun Moertl]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative American Studies: An International Journal

Special Issue: ³Hemispheric Approaches to Native American Studies²

 The academic shift from a U.S.-centered conception of ³America² and the
³American² towards a western hemispheric perspective spanning from pole to
pole is currently at the forefront of American Studies.  As indicated by
recent trends in publishing and the development of professional websites,
organizations, journals, and pedagogical seminars, many scholars now study
the United States within a hemispheric framework.[1] <#_ftn1>   While this
new scholarship, and its orientation towards the comparative study of the
Americas, partly reflects the geopolitics of U.S.-led globalization, one
also finds here an opportunity to uncover a rich confluence of cultural and
political forces actively suppressed by national narratives.  In an effort
to expand this research to the most seminal of American fields, this call
for papers is a follow-up to ³Approaching Native American Cultures from an
Inter-American Perspective: Similarities and Differences,² the heading under
which the 32nd ³American Indian Workshop² (AIW) operated in Graz, Austria,
in spring of 2011.  The workshop brought together scholars from around the
world and was a key indicator that a pan-indigenous studies paradigm can be
a powerful agent for rethinking traditional American studies, as well as the
narrow definitions of Americanness imposed through the establishment of
European colonies and Euro-American nation-states.

The editors of an upcoming special edition of the interdisciplinary journal
Comparative American Studies invite contributions (between 5,000 and 7,000
words) that illustrate this new hemispheric approach to indigenous studies.
We welcome essays from the pre-Columbian era to the present that deal with
issues such as artistic exchange, (neo)colonialism, identity, resistance,
environmentalism, border-crossing, and new disciplinary forms. We are
primarily interested in comparative work that highlights continuity and
conflict across North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as
the indigenous nations established before the European arrival.

Please email abstracts of 250 words (or less) and a biographical blurb to

Antonio Barrenechea abarrene at umw.edu <mailto:abarrene at umw.edu>  & Heidrun
Moertl heidrun.moertl at uni-graz.at

Deadline for abstract submissions is February 1, 2012.


[1] <#_ftnref1> A small sampling follows.  For publications, see Hemispheric
American Studies (Rutgers UP, 2007) and the monographs published as part of
the ³Imagining the Americas² series at Oxford University Press.  Pertinent
websites include the ³Ours Americas Archive Partnership² (which combines the
³Early Americas Digital Archive² [EADA] and the ³Rice American Collection²).
Under professional organizations, the International Association of
Inter-American Studies (IAS) and its online journal, Forum for
Inter-American Research (FIAR), was established in 2008. The NEH seminar,
Toward a Hemispheric American Literature, took place at Columbia University
in 2007.     


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