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

[Sibelan Forrester]

from Diana Greene <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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