Panel Proposal for AAASS 34th National Convention
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 21-24 November 2002
"Czeching it Out" After 89: Literary 'Outlooks'
This panel seeks to explore the changes in post-communist Czech Republic
as reflected in literature -- both within Czech culture itself, but also
in its translation or within English or American culture which portrays
this far off East European Bohemia (such as in the movie _Dancing
in the Dark_). What metamorphoses has the Czech outlook or the outlook on
the Czech experienced since 1989? What socio-cultural constants have
remained the same? How is this apparent in literary works? Can one say
that nothing notable has been written in the Czech Republic since 89 or
that Czech dissident classics have been transformed into American pulp
fiction? How is Czech literature looking outwards in its expression and
how is it 'outing' itself as Czech?
The 'outlooks' in our title imply movements beyond -- beyond borders,
beyond aesthetic expression, beyond 'isms' such as feminism, capitalism,
nationalism or multiculturalism... How is Czech literature 'outdoing'
itself in style, form and genre? How does it reflect the Czech's relationship
to the outside (such as to Europe, the East or to a global world order)
or to its outsiders (its Slovak, German, or Austrian neighbours, for
example)? And especially, what of those out of Czech mainstream culture
-- returning emigrants, women, ethnic or sexual minorities -- how is
their writing "out of bounds"?
Though the scope of this panel is primarily literature, papers from other
fields (such as politics, history, anthropology, art and design, film,
architecture, cultural studies etc.) are warmly welcomed as long as they
interrelate with literary concerns in some way.
Please send 250-300 word abstracts, along with a brief CV, by NOVEMBER
30th 2001 to:
Madelaine Hron
Dept. of Comparative Literature
2015 Tisch Hall
Ann Arbor MI, 48109-1003
Preferably Email mhron@umich.edu
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