Graduate Student CFP: Studies in Slavic Cultures X -- Deadline extended to December 31

[Elise Thorsen]

Dear Colleagues!

*Studies in Slavic Cultures* is still accepting submissions for its 2011
issue, until December 31!

The theme of this issue is “Postmodernism.” We welcome submissions from
graduate students investigating any aspect of this topic in relation to
literary, visual, performative, and other areas of contemporary culture in
Russia and Eastern Europe.

We understand postmodernism to mean a cultural tendency emerging globally in
the wake of World War II.  Beginning in the 1970s, the particular iteration
of postmodernism in the Soviet bloc responds to the tropes of modernity and
the imposed aesthetic practice of Socialist Realism, among other things.
The demise of the Soviet Union brought about an explosion of new texts as
artists eagerly appropriated and reworked a plethora of previously
unexplored themes, images, and material from both East and West.  The
question is now open as to whether postmodernism is at an end, whether all
texts are finally played out, and whether the author is really and truly
dead.  We propose no solution to this question, but seek rather to explore
what may be the outermost limits of this period.

Submissions should concern texts produced within the bounds of
postmodernism, as defined above.  We understand “text” in the widest sense
possible, from the monumental trace of architecture to the ephemera of
performance art.  Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to
postmodernism, postmodernity, and the postmodern condition will be
considered.

* The extended deadline for submissions is December 31, 2010*.  Please
direct queries and submissions to Hillary Brevig and Elise Thorsen at
sisc at pitt.edu.

With best regards,

Elise Thorsen


PhD Student
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Cathedral of Learning 1417
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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