CfP: Narratives of Post-Communism in Bulgaria and Romania

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies seeks essays of 6,000 to 8,000 words for a collection that explores the post-1989 cultural landscapes in Bulgaria and Romania as reflected in literature and film, music and popular culture, the fine and performing arts. Submissions are welcomed that focus on post-1989 reevaluations of Bulgaria and Romania's literary and cultural canons and interrogate their importance for community building after communism and in the context of the European integration. We are interested in the following themes: 1989, post-communism; post-colonialism; the Cold War; transition; translation; the EU; bi-lingual/ multi-lingual writing; history; memory; new media; new Europe; minor literatures; ethnic, national, and gendered selves; violence; fragmentation; the past; the future; the local; the global. Abstracts (500 words) and vita to Lilya Kaganovsky at lilya@illinois.edu and Maggie Ivanova at mivanova@coastal.edu by 15 September 2008; completed essays to be included in the volume by 1 December 2008.