drama/theater forum in SEEJ

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Call for papers for a forum
"Rethinking Slavic Drama/Theatre/Performance"
to be guest-edited by Halina Filipowicz
for the SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL.

I seek submissions from a wide variety of innovative perspectives and
comparative approaches to open up new ways of theorizing Slavic drama and to
integrate it more fully into theatre and performance studies.

However one chooses to look at the impact of critical theory on Slavic
studies, there is no doubt that theatre and drama have been either
overlooked or "de-classified" by assimilation into a generalized textual
discourse.  Yet drama has the performance specificity that offers a
possibility of theorizing otherwise.

As a starting point, the forum will consider drama as a borderline, hybrid
genre that belongs to both literature and theatre.  Some of the questions to
be examined:

How does drama reconcile a double set of conventions: those of literature
and those of theatre?  What are the conflicts and compromises, silent trysts
and illicit liaisons between the theatre text and the literary text of
drama?  How does a play act out, rather than merely script, its meanings?
How does it inscribe a potential theatre production?  How can interpretive
categories such as "the paper stage" and "interior director" open up
readings of Slavic drama that are less pure, less literature-oriented?

All articles will go through a SEEJ review process.  Deadline: 1 March 1998.

Please send inquiries and submissions to:

Halina Filipowicz
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706

e-mail:  hfilipow at facstaff.wisc.edu
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Benjamin Rifkin
Associate Professor of Russian
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814