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Transculturalisms, 1400–1700
Series Editors: Ann Rosalind Jones , Smith College ; Jyotsna G. Singh , Michigan State University ; & Mihoko Suzuki , University of Miami
This series will present studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas . Books will investigate travelers, merchants and cultural inventors, including explorers, mapmakers, artists and writers, as they operated in political, mercantile, sexual and linguistic economies. We encourage authors to reflect on their own methodologies in relation to issues and theories relevant to the study of transculturism/translation and transnationalism. We are particularly interested in work on and from the perspective of the Asians, Africans, and Americans involved in these interactions, and on such topics as:
- Material exchanges, including textiles, paper and printing, and technologies of knowledge
- Movements of bodies: embassies, voyagers, piracy, enslavement
- Travel writing: its purposes, practices, forms and effects on writing in other genres
- Belief systems: religions, philosophies, sciences
- Translations: verbal, artistic, philosophical
- Forms of transnational violence and its representations
Proposals should take the form of either
1. a preliminary letter of inquiry, briefly describing the project; or
2. a formal prospectus including: abstract, brief statement of your critical methodology, table of contents, sample chapter, estimate of length (NB, in words , pls), estimate of the number and type of illustrations to be included, and a c.v.
Please send a copy of either type of proposal to each of the three series editors and to the publisher, at these addresses:
- Ann Rosalind Jones
Esther Cloudmann Dunn Professor of Comparative Literature
Program in Comparative Literature
Smith College
Northampton , MA 01063
USA
arjones(at)smith.edu (if sending attachments to Prof. Jones, please make sure they end as .doc) - Jyotsna G. Singh
Professor of English
201 Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1036
USA
jsingh(at)msu.edu - Mihoko Suzuki
Professor of English
321 Ashe Building
University of Miami
Coral Gables , FL 33124
USA
msuzuki(at)miami.edu
Erika Gaffney
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Company
101 Cherry Street, Suite 420
Burlington, VT 05401-4405
USA
E-mail: egaffney(at)ashgate.com
