CFP:The Everyday in East Central European Lit (MLA'01)

[NIZYNSKA,JOANNA]

A Special Session Proposal for the Modern Language Association convention
in New Orleans, LA 27-30 December, 2001

Witnessing the Everyday: East Central European Literatures and the Ethics
of the Ordinary

The agenda behind this panel is to discuss literature which engages in the
representation of the everyday and, at least on a discursive level, is
divorced from history. The broadly understood discursive and
non-discursive aspects of writing the "ordinary" are the primary target of
this panel; some potential issues could be the relation to the Other,
inter-subjectivity, strategies of the private and mythologies
of the everyday, or the ideological implications
of the exclusion of history. Interdysciplinary, theoretical, and
comparative approaches would be welcome.

If you are interested in participating in this panel, please let me know
at your earliest convenience. Depending on the number of panelists, each
paper would be 15 or 20 minutes. I must receive all abstracts
(approximately one page) by March 28, 2001 in order to propose the panel
by MLA's April 7 deadline for submission. All panelists must be members of
MLA by April 2001.

Please send abstracts or questions to:
Joanna Nizynska
Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA:
nizynska at yahoo.com
or
jnizynsk at ucla.edu

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