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Central and East European Culture and Literature

Call for papers:  New Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven
Totosy. Papers are invited for a collected volume on contemporary Central
European culture. To be published in 2003 in the Purdue University Press
series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm>, the volume will contain
new work in the field.

The book will be the second volume with work about Central European
culture in the series, following Comparative Central European Culture. A
contested notion, the concept of a Central European culture is constructed
based on real or imagined and variable similarities emanating from
historical, social, and cultural characteristics apparent in cultures
ranging from Austria and the former East Germany to Romania and Bulgaria
and Serbia to the Ukraine, etc., thus including the Habsburg lands and
their spheres of influence at various times of history including now. With
the tentative title of New Comparative Central European Culture, the book
will contain work that is implicitly or explicitly comparative, following
the notions proposed in comparative cultural studies at
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html>. That is,
instead of the single-language and culture approach, the authors of the
papers in the volume will discuss topics in at least two cultures of the
Central European landscape or any other literary, media, communication,
politics, economics, etc., topic that fits the proposed framework of
comparative cultural studies.  As well, papers on theory and methodology
engaging notions of/in comparative cultural studies as applied in the
study of Central European culture are invited. Papers should be between
6000-7000 words, in the MLA style of parenthetical sources and works cited
but without footnotes or end notes. The deadline of submission is flexible
but no later than December 2002. Please send papers to Steven Totosy at
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