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From: Balassopoulos Antonis <[log in to unmask]> Gramma (Journal) CFP Update GRAMMA Journal of Theory and Criticism Issue Number 13, 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS Comparative Literature and Global Studies: Histories and Trajectories The host of recent publications and debates on global literary studies seems to augur that comparative literature is in the process of rethinking the horizon of its engagements. Whether in an attempt to revitalize the ethical legacy of a certain kind of secular universalism, or in an effort to respond to the challenges of "cognitive mapping" in the era of globalization, the discipline seems intent on (re)imagining broader vistas than those of an increasingly provincialized European literary tradition. That this is occurring at a time when both reading audiences and multilingual literary markets seem to be on the wane reinforces the need for critical reflection on the character of the present conjuncture. This issue of Gramma aims to provide a forum for debate on the usable pasts and the emerging futures of a "worlded" comparative literature, as well as an opportunity to map both the pathways it has opened and the ones it has foreclosed or left unexplored. Indicative topics for submissions include: - "World literature" as ethical ideal, as methodological challenge, as foundation for emergent forms of knowledge. - Literary production, circulation, translation, and reception across/ beyond national boundaries. - Intersecting or competing formulations of literary history and theory from a global perspective: cosmopolitanism, diaspora and exile, post- coloniality, world-system theory. - Global literary comparatism in historical perspective: paradigms, mutations, displacements, reinflections. - Transnational literary geographies: continent and subcontinent, hemisphere, ocean, archipelago. - Conceptual horizons and theoretical tensions: global and local, core and periphery, system and fragment, structure and play, close and distant reading. Papers should not exceed the length of 5000 words (including footnotes and bibliography). They should follow the MLA Handbook (fifth edition). Papers should be submitted in double-spaced format (two hard copies and a disk) to the editors of the issue at the following addresses: Antonis Balasopoulos Stephanos Stephanides Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Cyprus P.O Box 205371678, Nicosia, Cyprus E-mail: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Yiorgos Kalogeras School of English Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 54 124 Thessaloniki Greece E-mail: [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2004