Call for submissions on Aleshkovsky

[Derek Maus]

I am seeking original essay submissions for a web-based casebook on Yuz
Aleshkovsky's vastly underappreciated novel KANGAROO (orig. pub as KENGURU,
Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981; trans. pub., Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press,
1999; New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986) to be published in fall 2002
on the Center for Book Culture's website
(http://www.centerforbookculture.org) as part of its Studies in Modern and
Contemporary Fiction series (ed. by Robert Mclaughlin).

The casebooks in this series are intended to serve as a resource for
readers--teachers and students, especially--who desire some guidance in
engaging these novels. Each casebook contains and introduction by the
casebook editor which offers an overview of the novel, its place in the
author's oeuvre, and its critical reception. The other four essays offer
different approaches to the novel and different interpretive strategies
with which to understand it. There is also a bibliography of the most
important critical work on the novel. The purpose of this series is to open
up avenues for exploring each novel and to open up a dialogue of ideas
among our contributors and each new reader.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed and the entire volume, once completed,
will be refereed by the editors at Dalkey Archive Press prior to
publication on the Center for Book Culture website.

All interpretive approaches to the novel are welcome and some departure
from the traditional academic essay form is encouraged -- although not
required -- by the online format. Please refer to
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/casebooks/casebook_tunnel/Introduction_302.htm
for an example of a previous casebook in this series. Any quotations and
citations would need to be translated into English, but Slavist approaches
are warmly welcomed.

Abstracts and/or informal prospectuses of potential submissions are welcome
and encouraged in advance, but completed articles (20-25 double-spaced
pages in length) must be received by May 31, 2002 for consideration.

Mail or e-mail (as attachments, please) submissions, abstracts, or queries to:

Derek Maus
Assistant Professor of English and Communications
SUNY College at Potsdam
Potsdam, NY 13676

mausdc at potsdam.edu

Derek Maus
Assistant Professor of English and Communication
SUNY College at Potsdam
244 Morey Hall
Potsdam, NY 13676
(315) 267-2196
mausdc at potsdam.edu

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