CFP: MLA Slavic Division session on "The Literary Free Market: 1989-2009"

[Jessie Labov]

Call for Papers: 

Modern Language Association 2009 Convention 
December 27-30, Philadelphia

MLA Session sponsored by the Division on Slavic & East European Literatures

“The Literary Free Market: 1989–2009”

This session will consider the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the literary 
products—including journalistic—that followed. We are seeking papers concerning the 
transformation of the literary marketplace in Eastern Europe, the publishing industries 
(E&W) of the new Europe, conflicts and convergences between old and new media, as well 
as individual texts and authors that characterize or comment on the post-89 literary 
landscape. How have the expectations of the reading public shifted since 1989? What is the 
role of the translator in the literary free market? As both readers and scholars of East 
European literature, have we come to "value" it differently?

Abstracts of 350 words by 15 March 2009 to Jessie Labov <labov.1 at osu.edu>.

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