Comparative Cultural Studies and Popular Culture
Call for Papers Deadline: 2002-06-01
Date Submitted: 2002-01-19

Comparative Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Ed. Benton Jay
Komins. Papers are solicited for a collected volume in the Purdue
University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm>, a series affiliated
with CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal,
also published by Purdue at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/>.
Contemporary analyses of popular culture strive to demystify objects
and performances in the context of hegemonic culture. Many scholars
and critics ask us to interrogate the place of the popular within
ideology, especially the ways in which popular culture impacts our
own subject positions. But what happens when we expand our discussion
comparatively, across cultural, historical, ideological, and
linguistic contexts? This volume is intended to expand the critical
reception of popular culture through a broad comparative discussion.
Please send papers of 6,000 to 8,000 words with a one page curriculum
vitae to Benton Jay Komins, Center for the Humanities, 811 SW
Jefferson Ave, Corvallis, OR 97333 USA at <bjkominsorst.ed>.
Submissions should follow the MLA format without footnotes or end
notes. The deadline of submissions is 1 June 2002.

Contact information:
Benton Jay Komins, Center for the Humanities, 811 SW Jefferson Ave,
Corvallis, OR 97333 USA
Email: bjkominsorst.edu

Call for Papers website:
http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm

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