[MGSA-L] Edited Volume deadline approaching

[Theodora Patrona]

Reminder: Edited Volume/Transcultural Encounters: Italian Americans and
Greek Americans
deadline for submissions:
October 15, 2018
full name / name of organization:
Editors: Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Theodora Patrona
contact email:
tpatrona at gmail.com

Transcultural Encounters: Italian Americans and Greek Americans
Italian Americans and Greek Americans have lived in the same neighborhoods,
worked in the same workplaces, loved each other, married with each other,
and participated in labor strikes together. Did they play music together?
Did they find inspiration in each other’s cultural expressions? What do we
know about the field of their interactions? They have certainly been
classified under the same rubric as “white ethnics,” Michael Novak’s
infamous PIGS (Poles, Italians, Greeks and Slavs), an ideological
construction which was pivotal in the identity politics of the 1970s. But
how did Italian American and Greek American lives intersect in everyday
social life? How did they negotiate their mobility to the suburbs in
relation to each other? In what ways did Italian American and Greek
American histories and experiences diverge?
The transcultural encounters between Italian Americans and Greek Americans
have been marginalized in academic research, where the “single group
approach” privileges the study of ethnic singularity instead of
cross-cultural intersections. Literature, literary criticism, and labor
studies certainly acknowledge and explore Italian–Greek American
cross-fertilizations. But this transcultural field requires that we place
it at the center of analysis to bring scholarship closer to social
realities.
This volume brings into focus Italian American and Greek American
encounters from the perspective of anthropology, folklore, history,
language, literature, and cultural studies, including film,
ethnomusicology, and biography. Taking cues from concepts such as “contact
zones” and borderlands, we are interested in understanding the social
dynamic–processes involving negotiation, conflict, cooperation, solidarity,
love, cultural exchanges–that have marked these encounters. We are
interested in identifying differences, similarities, and intersections
across the historical experiences of these groups. We wish to map specific
encounters and find out what these encounters tell us about European
American transculturalism in the United States.
We are looking for papers which are theoretically informed and
ethnohistorically grounded. They must engage with key theoretical concepts
associated with transcultural encounters, and must be written in a
compelling and accessible prose. Length should not exceed 6,000 words,
including bibliography.
All submissions will undergo peer review.
Topics could include the following:
• Workplace; working class solidarities and tensions
• Multiple identities
• Family, gender, sexuality
• Religion and Folklore (intersection of mythological themes for example)
• Resistance to or consent to whiteness
• Immigrant and ethnic neighborhoods
• The immigrant and ethnic past: memory, family biography, autobiography
• Cultural cross-fertilizations; music, theater, cinema

Timeline
Please send a well-developed, 350-500 word abstract, and a curriculum vitae
to Theodora Patrona (tpatrona at gmail.com) by October 15, 2018. The abstract
must outline the author’s theoretical framework and identify the aims of
the work. It must include relevant bibliography.
Formal invitation to contribute to the volume by November 15, 2018
Deadline for the submission of the book chapter, May 1, 2019
Projected date of publication Fall 2019
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Theodora Patrona
Editors
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