Call for papers
volume XLVI, no. 2 (2021)
SPACE
We would like to devote the next issue of Studia Rossica Posnaniensia to the notion of space in the Russian texts of culture. The spatial turn has become almost an obvious thing in cultural studies around the world, yet within the field of Russian studies understood in their broadest sense there is still a visible lack of inquiries associated with the spatial reality of Russia that are concerned with both literary and linguistic research, especially those of comparative and interdisciplinary nature. Therefore, the profile of the issue will be determined by the examinations of cultural landscapes, regions and cities perceived either as models of reality or as partial representations of local spaces. Additionally, it will be determined by the geography of transcultural regions of Russia, metaphorisation of space, spatial founding myths, literary and cinematographic imagologies examined from the point of view of their language, as well as by the (re)interpretation of the meaning of spatial relationships in the context of ideologies, situations of exclusion, control or oppression. We encourage Authors to submit the papers presenting the analyses of selected texts (case studies) as well as the review papers focused on theoretical or practical approaches to the notion. We hope that the issue will include papers with attempts to develop and apply new methodologies both in historical and contemporary Russian texts. Besides, the issue is definitely open to pondering identity narratives embedded in space, cultural interactions represented in (autobiographic) texts of the Russian emigration, as well as the motives and techniques of magisation of the spatial reality. Obviously, these themes serve only as the initial framework for further exploration of the question of the Russian space.
We sincerely invite you to participate in the project! We accept papers within the character limit between 20000 and 40000. The papers should be formatted in accordance with the journal’s editorial guidelines and written in Russian, English, Polish or German.
We await your submissions until the 30th of November 2020.
We kindly ask you to submit your papers through the PRESSto. platform (https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/strp/login). In case of technical difficulties please contact the secretary of the journal at the following email addresses: konrad.rachut@gmail.com or studia.rossica.posnan@gmail.com.