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<DIV>Please forgive the mass email: I wanted immediately to share with you the
new call for papers for the forthcoming issue of <I>e-misférica</I>, the
biannual, peer-reviewed journal of the Hemispheric Institute, for which I've
just become editor. We are working towards extending our 'hemispheric'
conversations into wider scholarly networks, and inviting more scholars and
artists in theatre and performance studies to participate in conversations with
our colleagues to the south and north through the journal. (see: <A
href="">http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/journal/4.2/eng/en42_index.html</A>
for the current issue). </DIV>
<DIV>The Fall 2008 issue will be devoted to "race and performance" and I would
love to include your work, and/or have your perspectives on the issues most
pressing in that field. Please share this call far and wide, and note that a
version in Spanish and Portuguese will soon be available, and I would be very
happy to share it with any colleagues whom you recommend. We publish in English,
Spanish, and Portuguese.</DIV>
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<DIV>All best, Jill</DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Call for
contributions • <I>e-misférica</I></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"> 5.2 • Race and Performance in the
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"><I>e-misférica</I></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">, the biannual, peer-reviewed, online
journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, invites
submissions for its upcoming issue, which will focus on race in the Americas,
exploring the making, maintenance, and change of racial formations through
performance. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">This issue aims
to explore comparative racial formations in the Americas through
performance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How has performance
helped to shape the specific ways in which race organizes social relations in
specific social and historical contexts? When and how have racial formations
been articulated or contested forcefully through the performing body? What
<I>racial</I></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"> “contact
zones,” to extend Mary Louise Pratt’s evocative formulation, have been created
by the contact, overlap, or interpenetration of racial formations in border
zones and in the histories of migration, displacement and movement throughout
the Americas? <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Most national
discourse in the Americas has relied on an implicit or explicit relation to
race, through celebrations, negations, or disavowals of
<I>mestizaje</I></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">,
<I>indigenismo</I></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">, racial
democracy, and so on; how and when has performance crucially intervened in these
discourses? How has performance—from carnival to theatre to activism—served to
pose and practice alternative or critical ways of living the realities of
race?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Pertinent themes
include:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Race + biopolitics, past and
present<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">race versus
ethnicity<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Racial impersonation: blackface,
yellowface, redface<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Race + modernity, race + nation
formation<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">race + performative
visuality<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Racial denial<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Racial memory, racial
trauma<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">trans/racial crossings; transnational
racial formations<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">performance and histories of immigration
(Arab, Chinese, Japanese, and more)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"><I>e-misférica</I></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"> includes essays and multimedia
presentations by artists, activists, and intellectuals, as well as reviews of
books, performances, and films. This issue will be published in November 2008.
We welcome essays in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, approximately 5000-7000
words. All essays are peer reviewed. See<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="">http://hemisphericinstitute.org/journal</A></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Please submit
completed essays by March 25, 2008 to <SPAN style="COLOR: black">e-misférica at
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><A
href=""><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">hemi.ejournal@nyu.edu</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">. Please include
"e-misférica 5.2" in the subject heading.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">Advance queries
are most welcome; contact Jill Lane, editor, at </SPAN><A href=""><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'">jill.lane@nyu.edu</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica Neue'"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff> ________________________________________________________________________<BR>"Those
who have an orphan's sense of history love history."--Anna in Ondaatje's
Divisadero<BR>_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>"La
Pocha Nostra is a virtual maquiladora [. . . ] that produces brand-new
metaphors, symbols, images, and words to explain the complexities of our times.
The Spanglish neologism Pocha Nostra translates as either 'our impurities' or
'the cartel of cultural bastards.' We love this poetic ambiguity. It reveals an
attitude toward art and society: 'Crossracial, poly-gendered, experi-mental, ¿y
qué?' " --Guilllermo
Gómez-Peña.<BR>___________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill
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