>
>REMINDER:
>
>Please note that the SUBMISSION-DEADLINE for abstracts for the MLA 2007- CfP:
>
>'Post-allied Austria': the influence of the occupying Allied Forces on
>Austrian literature after 1945
>
>is 9th MARCH, 2007.
>
>
>
>CfP: 'POST-ALLIED AUSTRIA'
>
>The discussion focuses on literature that was produced during the first
>two decades after 1945 in post-nationalist Austria at a time when the
>country was, until 1955, under the direct rule of the Allied Forces and,
>after then, still influenced by their cultures. The Anglo-American, Slavic
>and Romanic cultures left their traces in the Austrian literature of this
>time in addition to the influence of the 'New, post-Third Reich Germany'.
>The topic of the panel will be to investigate these traces on a diachronic
>as well as a synchronic level as the literature produced during this time
>shows formal and thematic 'Habsburg-Austrian' residues, bearing Slavic and
>Romanic elements, as well as tendencies to revaluate pop-cultural
>contents and forms, like the comic strip or detective novel, which are
>rooted in the Anglo-American tradition.
>
>The parameters of Austrian cultural identity from the 1940s to the 1970s
>will be discussed with reference to its historical and political
>dimension and the attempt to newly establish it in regard to the Allied
>Forces' and Germany's influential presence. Secondly, the expression
>'Austrian Literature' will be investigated in terms of its usefulness for
>literary discourse, with reference to the concept of 'national
>literatures' in general. Thus the discussion will on the one hand
>contribute to a revision of an Austrian cultural history of the 1950s and
>on the other hand pose a new critical approach to the
>term 'Austrian Literature' itself.
>
>Papers are particularly welcome for the
>following topics (also with an interdisciplinary
>angle):
>- Overlaps, limitations and mutual influence: literature of the
> 'Wiederaufbau' (restitution) in Austria and
>o Anglo-American Literature (see also the American
> Re-education program)
>o French Literature
>o Slavic Literature
>- Literature of the border provinces & their new (political)
> position after 1945 (see the concepts of periphery and centre)
>- Nazi-literature & literary reactions to it in Austria after 1945
> with respect to the 'Opfer/Mittäter' - question
>- Literary reflections of the 'Opfermythos' in Austria
>- The historical and political traces of
>the Allied occupation in the Second
> Republic
>- A critical approach to the concept of an 'Austrian Literature' as
> manifestation of a 'Nationalkultur' (a culture based on national
> principles)
>
>Proposals for papers of 20-25 minutes length (a maximum of 250 words)
>should be sent to Heide Kunzelmann per email
>([log in to unmask]) before March 9th,
>2007.
>
>N.B.: Prospective speakers at the MLA-conference have to be members of the
>Modern Language Association or become a member
>before April 7th, 2007. For application details
>please go to: www.mla.org. Also, all European
>participants are asked to request funding for
>travel and accommodation from their
>home-institution. For details of further funding
>opportunities please go to www.malca.org.
>--
>Heide Kunzelmann
>Austrian Lektorin
>
>Languages and Social Sciences
>Aston University
>Birmingham B4 7ET
>United Kingdom
>phone: 0044-121-2043754
>email: [log in to unmask]
>
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Aston University
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