CFP: Russian Women Writers (NeMLA, Montreal April 2010)

[Anne Lounsbery]

Posted by: diana.greene at nyu.edu



Call for Papers: NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Convention,
April 7-11, 2010 Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

Panel Title: Russian Women Writers: New Views
   This panel invites examinations of 18th-21st century Russian women
writers in the present critical environment. Send 250-word abstracts to
diana.greene at nyu.edu by Sept. 30, 2009.

Panel description:
     A post post modernist cultural climate has re-energized feminist
criticism. Those who are interested in the specificities of women's writing
are now less likely to be labeled essentialists, while being able to take
advantage of both the theoretical concepts of post modernism, post
colonialism, queer theory, gender studies, and also those of earlier
feminist criticism. This
new, rich critical environment is particularly useful for examining women's
writing of Russia a country that has been described as self-colonized
(Dragan Kujundzic) and in which gender has been constructed somewhat
differently from a generically definedWest (Irina Savkina). This session is
intended to inspire new interpretative strategies and interpretations of the
works of canonical and noncanonical 18th-21st century Russian women writers.
Some possible questions: How have works of Russian women writers been
influenced by Western thinking and feminism of various periods? How have
Russian women writers resisted such influences? How are the specifics of
gender construction in various periods of Russian history reflected in the
work of Russian women writers? How do Russian women writers respond to each
other? To the concept of women's writing? Should concepts of periodization,
national literature, gender and genre be problematized in discussions of
writing by women? 
Deadline:  September 30, 2009

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be
posted in June: www.nemla.org.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA
session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar).
Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present
at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

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Diana Greene,
Slavic Studies Librarian,
Bobst Library, NYU
diana.greene at nyu.edu
212 998-2504

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