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
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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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