Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 248.
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Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 07:32:22 +0100
From: "Totosy, Steven, Prof.Ph.D." <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
Subject: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture; new books, cfp
1) Issue 4.3 (September 2002) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
is online now <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/>. The issue contains
articles by Lois Parkinson Zamora (U of Houston) on comparative literature
and globalization, Dora Salvador Sales (U Jaume I of Castellon, Spain)
with an interview with Itamar Even-Zohar (Tel Aviv U) on literary and
culture theory, Adrian Gargett (independent scholar, U.K.) on Nolan's film
Memento, Anne Garrait-Bourrier (Blaise Pascal U, France) on Baudelaire,
Poe, and translation, and Hugo Azerad (Magdalene College, Cambridge, U.K.)
on spaces in the poetry of Reverdy, Supervielle, and Michaux, and with a
book review article by Ralph Freedman (Princeton U, emeritus) on recent
books of memoirs. Comments to the authors are welcome (e-mail addresses are
with each article) and/or to the journal at <clcweb@purdue.edu>.
2) New book: Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Totosy de
Zepetnek <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html>.
Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 1
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm> and
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>. West Lafayette:
Purdue University Press <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu>, 2002. ISBN
1-55753-240-0. 217 pages, bibliography, index. Paper, US 24.95. Orders to
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu> or 1-800-247-6553. The volume contains
selected papers of conferences organized by the editor, Steven Totosy, in
1999 and 2000 in Canada and the US on various topics of culture and
literature in Central and East Europe. Based on the (contested) notion of
the existence of a specific cultural context of the region defined as
"Central Europe," contributors to the volume discuss comparative cultural
studies as a theoretical framework (Steven Totosy, Boston, U of
Halle-Wittenberg, and Purdue UP), modernism in Central European literature
(Andrea Fabry, SUNY Stony Brook), Central European Holocaust poetry
(Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, U of Texas Dallas), gender in Central European
literature and film (Aniko Imre, U of Washington), Austroslovakism in the
work of Slovak writer Anton Hykisch (Peter Petro, U of British Columbia),
Kundera and the identity of Central Europe (Hana Pichova, U of Texas
Austin), public intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 (Katherine
Arens, U of Texas Austin), contemporary Austrian and Hungarian cinema
(Catherine Portuges, U of Massachusetts Amherst), the notion of
peripherality in contemporary East European culture (Roumiana Deltcheva,
independent scholar, Montreal), and Central European Jewish family history
in the film Sunshine (Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard U). The volume includes
a bibliography for the study of Central European culture (Steven Totosy,
Boston, U of Halle-Wittenberg, and Purdue UP), biographical abstracts of
contributors, and an index.
3) Call for papers: The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/clcwebcallsforpapers.html>, an
international conference, will take place in Targu-Mures, Romania, 21-24
August 2003. The conference is hosted by the Gheorghe Sincai Research
Institute of the Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy
of Sciences (Targu Mures) and Petru Maior University (Targu Mures).
Abstracts of 200 words in English, German, or French with a biographical
detail of 200 words are invited in the following areas of post-1989 Central
and East Europen culture, whereby comparative papers are preferred: Culture
in general and including literature, the arts, film, music, etc.;
Comparative media studies (aspects of television, radio, film, journalism,
etc.); The politics of culture and cultural policy; The histories of
post-1989 Central and East Europe; Cultural traditions and European
integration; Intersections of society and socialization; Globalization,
economics, and culture; Aspects of minorities, the marginal, and
marginalization. Further topics and proposals of thematic panels are also
welcome. The deadline of abstracts is 31 March 2003. The abstracts are
invited to the conference conveners Carmen Andras at
<prognoze@cjmures.orizont.net> or <carmen_andras@yahoo.com> and Steven
Totosy <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de> or <clcweb@purdue.edu>.
The theme of the conference is contemporary Central and East European
culture after the 1989-90 demise of the Soviet colonial period. A debated
notion, Central and East Europe is defined here as a geographical region
stretching from Austria and the former East Germany (incl.
Mitteldeutschland) to Romania and Bulgaria, the Baltic countries, Serbia
and the Ukraine, etc., including the Habsburg lands and German influence
and their spheres of interest at various times including now. Since the
events of 1989-90 and the demise of the Soviet empire, the cultures of
Central and East Europe have engaged in a restructuring of their political,
economic, social, and cultural environments and societies. While this
reshaping of the region is still on-going, there is a new Central and East
Europe in place now, politically, socially, economically, and culturally.
The objectives of the conference include explorations into aspects of the
social and cultural situation of the new Central and East Europe by
scholars working in the region: based on the notion of scholarship with
perspectives from the "outside" versus the "inside," the conference is with
focus on the work of scholars whose institutional affiliation is in Central
and East Europe (further conferences are planned to combine perspectives
from the "inside" and from the "outside," however). The conference at Targu
Mures is a continuation of previous gatherings such as the international
conference Central European Culture Today, organized by Steven Totosy and
hosted by the Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies (U
of Alberta, Canada, 1999) and the symposia "Comparative Culture and
Hungarian Studies" at the 24th Annual Conference of the American Hungarian
Educator's Association (John Carroll U, USA, 1999) and "Comparative
Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture" of the Hungarian
Discussion Group at the annual convention of the Modern Language
Association of America (Washington, D.C., USA, 2000), organized by Steven
Totosy. Selected papers from these conferences are published in Comparative
Central European Culture, Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek , in volume 1 in
the Purdue series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm> and
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>. West Lafayette:
Purdue UP, 2002. Selected papers of the conference at Targu-Mures are
planned to be published in the Purdue series of Books in Comparative
Cultural Studies, Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html>, series editor
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm> and
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>.
4) New book: Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed.
Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html>. Purdue Books in
Comparative Cultural Studies 2. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu>,
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm>, and
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>, 2002 (forthcoming).
ISBN 1-55753-288-5 (ebook), ISBN 1-55753-290-7 (pbk). 327 pages,
bibliography, index. Paper, ca. US 40.00. Orders to
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu> or 1-800-247-6553. The volume is the first
annual of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/>, a thematic volume with selected
papers from material published in the journal in volumes 1.1-4 of 1999 and
2.1-4 of 2000. The papers are with focus on theories and histories of
comparative literature and the emerging field of comparative cultural
studies. Contributors are Kwaku Asante-Darko (National U of Lesotho) on
African postcolonial literature, Hendrik Birus (U of Munich, Germany) on
Goethe's concept of world literature, Amiya Dev (Jadavpur U, India) on
comparative literature in India, Marian Galik (Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Slovakia) on interliterariness, Ernst Grabovszki (U of Vienna, Austria) on
globalization, new media, and world literature, Jan Walsh Hokenson (Florida
Atlantic U, U.S.A.) on the culture of the context, Marko Juvan (U of
Ljubljana, Slovenia) on literariness, Karl S.Y. Kao (Hong Kong U of Science
and Technology, China) on metaphor, Kristof Jacek Kozak (U of Alberta,
Canada) on comparative literature in Slovenia, Manuela Mourao (Old Dominon
U, U.S.A.) on comparative literature in the USA, Jola Skulj (U of
Ljubljana, Slovenia) on cultural identity, Slobodan Sucur (U of Alberta,
Canada) on period styles and theory, Peter Swirski (U of Alberta, Canada)
on popular and highbrow literature, Antony Tatlow (U of Dublin, Ireland) on
textual anthropology, William H. Thornton (National Cheng Kung U, Taiwan)
on East/West power politics in cultural studies, Steven Totosy (Boston, U
of Halle-Wittenberg, and Purdue UP) on comparative cultural studies, and
Xiaoyi Zhou (U of Hong Kong, China) and Q.S. Tong (Peking U, China) on
comparative literature in China. The papers are followed by a bibliography
of scholarship in comparative literature and cultural studies, compiled by
Steven Totosy (Boston, U of Halle-Wittenberg, and Purde UP), Steven Aoun
(Monash U, Australia), and Wendy C. Nielsen (U of California Santa Barbara,
U.S.A.), and an index.
5) Call for papers: New Comparative Central European Culture
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/clcwebcallsforpapers.html>.
Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html>. Papers are invited for
a collected volume on contemporary Central European culture. To be
published in 2003 in the Purdue University Press series of Books in
Comparative Cultural Studies
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm> and
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>, the volume will
contain new work in the field. The book will be the second volume with work
about Central European culture in the series, following Comparative Central
European Culture <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm> and
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html> (Purdue UP
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu>, 2002; ISBN 1-55753-240-0. 217 pages,
bibliography, index. Paper, US 24.95. Orders to
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu> or 1-800-247-6553). A contested notion,
the concept of a Central European culture is constructed based on real or
imagined and variable similarities emanating from historical, social, and
cultural characteristics apparent in cultures ranging from Austria and the
former East Germany to Romania and Bulgaria and Serbia to the Ukraine,
etc., thus including the Habsburg lands and their spheres of influence at
various times of history including now. With the tentative title of New
Comparative Central European Culture, the book will contain work that is
implicitly or explicitly comparative, following the notions proposed in
comparative cultural studies at
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html>. That is,
instead of the single-language and culture approach, the authors of the
papers in the volume discuss topics in at least two cultures of the Central
European landscape or any other literary, media, communication, politics,
economics, etc., topic that fits the proposed framework of comparative
cultural studies. As well, papers on theory and methodology engaging
notions of/in comparative cultural studies as applied in the study of
Central European culture are invited. Papers should be between 6000-7000
words, in the MLA style of parenthetical sources and works cited but
without footnotes or end notes. The deadline of submission is flexible but
no later than December 2002. Please send papers to Steven Totosy at
<clcweb@purdue.edu>.
6) Call for papers: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, a
peer-reviewed, full-text , and public-access journal published by Purdue
University Press online at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> invites
papers for a thematic issue on Black African Literary Theory, guest edited
by Kwaku Asante-Darko (National University of Lesotho). Papers of 6000
words are invited to the guest editor at <k.asante-darko@nul.ls> by 31
December 2002. For the style guide of the journal please consult the
journal's Procedures of Submission at
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html> (MLA parenthetical
sources and a works cited; no footnotes or end notes). The quest for
African identity in the face of racism, imperialism, and the aftermath of
colonialism provoked a revival of African values and a search for
authenticity. While some scholars and critics see a commonality of beliefs,
practices and historical experience on which to base a Black African theory
of literary interpretation, others contend that such basis for an
exclusively Black African criticism could not be upheld for want of any
authentic, wide, and genuinely Black African definition. They explain that
among others, these are sectional perspectives seeking to impose an ethnic
viewpoint on a multiplicity of African perspectives some of which are
patently irreconcilable. This approach raises debate about the implications
and justification for a theory of literary criticism whose point of
departure and assumptions about the purpose, methodology, and implications
of literature could be of authentic African origin and usefulness.The
thematic volume of CLCWeb intends to revive and to appraise the debate as a
way of assessing the current state of inquires into questions such as the
following: is there a general Black African way of reading texts?; is there
a way of reading Black African texts in particular?; from what values and
tenets are such precepts derived?; what would constitute the exclusivity or
peculiarities of an African aesthetics?; what features would distinguish an
African criticism from all hitherto literary theory?; what would be the
status and function of nationality, race, geography, gender and historical
experience in the formulation of this peculiar Black African theory. Since
these issues are closely related to political, philosophical, and
pedagogical concerns, articles merging these areas with the subject of
Black African literary theory are equally encouraged. Key questions for
consideration, therefore, include: 1) To what extent is it tenable to
uphold an universalist literary theory which overrides the exploration of
specific literary texts; 2) How do we critically evaluate the credentials
of an African theory of literacy criticism; 3) What will be exclusively,
permanently, and peculiarly African about such a theory a reading; and 4)
How do we decant the multiplicity of the heritage of the modern African
writer/critic from the residue that might finally be called African
literary theory.
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