Graduate Student CFP: Studies in Slavic Cultures X

[Elise Thorsen]

*Studies in Slavic Cultures* is now accepting submissions for the 2011
issue.  The theme of this issue is “Postmodernism” and we welcome graduate
student submissions 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 of 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.



Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2010.  Queries and submissions
should be sent to Hillary Brevig and Elise Thorsen at sisc at pitt.edu.



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Elise Thorsen


PhD Student

University of Pittsburgh

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Cathedral of Learning 1417

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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