'Postmodernism', Studies in Slavic Cultures (Deadline 1.12.2010) - 24.07.2025

We understand postmodernism to mean a cultural tendency emerging
globally in the wake of World War II. Beginning in the 1970s, the
particular iteration of postmodernism of the Soviet bloc responds to
the tropes of modernity and the imposed aesthetic practice of
Socialist Realism, among other things. The demise of the Soviet
Union brought about an explosion of new texts as artists eagerly
appropriated and reworked a plethora of previously unexplored themes,
images, and material from both East and West. The question is now
open as to whether postmodernism is at an end, whether all texts are
finally played out, and whether the author is really and truly dead.
We propose no solution to this question, but seek rather to explore
what may be the outermost limits of this period.

Submissions should concern texts produced within the bounds of
postmodernism, as defined above. We understand oetext in the widest
sense possible, from the monumental trace of architecture to the
ephemera of performance art. Interdisciplinary and comparative
approaches to postmodernism, postmodernity, and the postmodern
condition will be considered.

Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2010. Queries and
submissions should be sent to Hillary Brevig and Elise Thorsen at
sisc@pitt.edu.

Elise Thorsen
PhD Student
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Cathedral of Learning 1

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