CFP, ACLA 2009: The nineteenth century Russian novel and its transcultural tributaries

[Kate Holland]

Hi all,
Ilya Kliger and I are asking for paper proposals for our seminar entitled
"The nineteenth century Russian novel and its transcultural tributaries,"
which will take place at the ACLA 2009 Annual Meeting, devoted to the theme,
"Global Languages, Local Cultures," to be held at Harvard University on
March 26-29, 2009.  If you are unfamiliar with the format of the ACLA
conference, see here: http://www.acla.org/annualmeetingguidelines.html

The description of the seminar is below.

A latecomer to the European novelistic tradition, the Russian novel has
always been particularly aware of itself not only as a local phenomenon but
as belonging to a global, transcultural, and intergeneric field.  Indeed
throughout its history, the Russian novel has consistently tested generic,
national and disciplinary limits, crossing into the territory of its near
neighbors (lyric, epic, drama) and more distant ones (philosophy, theology,
art history, and other national literary and cultural traditions).  This
panel proposes to examine the nineteenth century Russian novelistic
tradition from an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective.  It will
be concerned with the fluid boundaries between the novel and the cultural,
generic, and linguistic fields which help shape its development.  We would
like to invite participants to submit abstracts related but not limited to
the following topics: transcultural or transnational exchange, genre memory,
visual culture, institutional context, spatio-temporal configurations,
historiography, comparative narratology.           
See http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=146

The deadline for abstracts is November 1: http://www.acla.org/submit/

If you're interested, please contact me (kate.holland at yale.edu) or Ilya
(ik32 at nyu.edu) or apply directly through the ACLA conference website.

Best wishes,
Kate Holland
Assistant Professor and DGS
Department of Slavic Langs and Lits
Yale University.

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