CALL FOR PAPERS
History, Memory, Representation - Perspectives on Central Europe by
Contemporary Canadian Writers and Critics.
We are preparing a collection of essays exploring contemporary Canadian
women writers' experience of Central and Eastern Europe from a variety
of perspectives.
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Central and Eastern
Europe in the areas of both fiction and nonfiction (especially memoirs)
by such writers as Myrna Kostash (All of Baba's Children, Blood
Lines, The Doomed Bridegroom), Janice Kulyk Keefer (The Green Library,
Honey and Ashes: The Story of Family), Ewa Hoffman (Lost in
Translation), Caroline Adderson (A History of Forgetting), Ewa
Stachniak (Necessary Lies), Anna Porter (The Storyteller: Memory,
Secrets, Magic and Lies, A Memoir of Hungary), Erna Paris (Long
Shadows), Lilian Nattal (The River Midnight, Apolonja Kojder (Marynia
Don't Cry) and Irena F. Karafilly, Anne Charney and Helen Weinzweig,
to mention a few. Some of these texts have been examined in academic
journals but in general much more critical attention needs to be given
to them. The proposed collection of essays aims at filling in this gap
in Canadian critical discourse.
Possible topics to be explored include but are not limited to:
* representation of Eastern /Central Europe in contemporary Canadian
writing
* history in fiction and memoir
* studies of national and family [ancestral] secrets and lies
* connections between constructions of gender and history
* questions of exile and gender
* role of mothers as "transmitters" of culture
* religion and gender
Abstracts of one page should be sent via e-mail by March 1, 2001 to the
following address, with completed essays to be submitted by August 1,
2001. We will notify you of acceptance of abstracts by March 31, 2001.
Essays will be peer reviewed before final acceptance.
Eugenia Sojka , Ph.D.
e-mail : esojka@pro.onet.pl
or
Noel Elizabeth Currie, Ph.D.
ncurrie@axion.net
Canadian Studies Program
Institute of British and American
Culture and Literature
University of Silesia
Zytnia 10
41-205 Sosnowiec
Poland
tel./fax:: + 48 (32) 435 9205
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