We are looking for ten papers that fit the general topic here above.

Possible sub-topics include, but are not limited to:

Self-orientalism; exoticism; cultural imperialism; "French" theory in academia; Western feminism; postmodernism; description of foreigners in Japanese culture; American popular heroes; transformation of popular heroes into Japanese ones (see Ultraman); representations of Black people or Black culture after Yamada Eimi's phenomenon; Asians in Japanese films; Japanese fictions and arts created outside Japan; representations of Nikkeijin, Japanese-Brazilians and Japanese-Peruvians in Japanese culture; etc.

Please send a one-page precis of the proposed project to:

Faye Kleeman and Cris Reyns-Chikuma, University of Colorado, EALC Department, Campus Box 279, Boulder, CO 80309-0279.

For more information, please contact: Cris Reyns-Chikuma, reyns@ucsub.colorado.edu

Deadline: September 30, 2000.