UPDATE: Canadian Perspectives on Central Europe (3/23/01; collection)

From: Eugenia Sojka (esojka@pro.onet.pl)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 21:55:58 EST

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    UPDATED CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (BOOK)
    Revised deadline for abstracts: Friday, March 23, 2001

    CALL FOR PAPERS =20

    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.=20

    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.=20

    Possible topics to be explored include but are not limited to:

    * representation of Eastern /Central Europe in contemporary Canadian =
    writing=20

    * history in fiction and memoir=20

    * studies of national and family [ancestral] secrets and lies=20

    * connections between constructions of gender and history

    * questions of exile and gender

    * role of mothers as "transmitters" of culture=20

    * religion and gender=20

    Abstracts of one page should be sent via e-mail by March 23, 2001 to the =
    following address, with completed essays to be submitted by August 1, =
    2001. We will notify you of acceptance of abstracts by April 20, 2001. =
    Essays will be peer reviewed before final acceptance.=20

    Eugenia Sojka , Ph.D.
    e-mail : esojka@pro.onet.pl=20
     or=20
    Noel Elizabeth Currie, Ph.D.
    ncurrie@axion.net
     =20

    Canadian Studies Program
    Institute of British and American
    Culture and Literature=20
    University of Silesia
    Zytnia 10
    41-205 Sosnowiec
    Poland
    tel./fax:: + 48 (32) 435 9205

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