Call for papers: "West European Literature, Periodization, and Central
and East European Fiction," panel at the 34th annual convention of the
AAASS: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 21-24
November 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The panel intends to address
the question of how periodizations of West European literature apply to
works of twentieth-century Central and East European fiction.
We are soliciting papers that seek answers to the following: What is
Central and East European modernism or postmodernism? Is Thomas Mann
really part of "that realism which, from Homer to Thomas Mann and Gorky,
has assumed change and development to be the proper subject of
literature" (Lukacs) divided from his Western contemporaries such as
Proust, Joyce? Is there a similar gap between Kafka and his
contemporary, Hasek?
Was socialist realism a direct continuation of classical realism? How do
the two realisms relate? Were the Central and East European new waves of
the 1960s a part of global postmodernism or were they modernist
responses to the literary standards of socialist realism? How is the
modernism/postmodernism of Central Europe different from/similar to
other modernisms/postmodernisms?
How do the canonical modernists relate to the non-institutionalized
ones? Can we speak about canonical postmodernists as yet and if so, do
they include Central and East European writers?
How do standard "isms" make sense in the Central and East European
context? What are common themes in the texts of Western and Central/East
European "isms"? What are common stylistic/technical/formal traits?
The papers of the panel are planned to be published in a collected
volume, books in Comparative Cultural Studies, a series published by
Purdue University Press (series editor is Steven Totosy). Please send
abstracts of 300 words by November 15 to the panel organizers: Andrea
Fabry at andrea_fabry@hotmail.com or Steven Totosy at
totosy@lib.purdue.edu .
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