1) Aims and Objectives of the Purdue Series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
    The Purdue series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies is affiliated with and follows the aims and objectives of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, a peer-reviewed quarterly, also published by Purdue University Press. Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in all of its products and processes; its theoretical and methodological framework is built on tenets borrowed from the discipline of comparative literature and cultural/culture studies and from a range of thought including (radical) constructivism, communication theories, systems theories, and literary and culture theory; in comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method as well as application and on the study of process(es) rather than on the "what" of the object(s) of study; in comparative cultural studies metaphorical argumentation and description are discouraged. For introductions to comparative cultural studies, see Steven Totosy, From Comparative Literature Today toward Comparative Cultural Studies and Constructivism and Comparative Cultural Studies. Purdue University Press publishes single-authored as well as collected volumes in the series. In addition to single-authored and collected volumes, thematic annuals with selected papers from the year's work of CLCWeb are also published in the series. Manuscripts submitted to the series editor are peer reviewed followed by the usual standards of editing. In this series, maximum four books per annum are published by the Press. Colleagues interested in publishing in the series are invited to contact the series editor at <clcweb@purdue.edu> or by phone at (1) 781-729-1680. Areas of interest in the series include new work in literary, critical, and culture theory and methods / (comparative) cultural studies / (comparative) media studies / (comparative) communication studies / audience studies / the comparison of primary texts across languages and cultures / (comparative) culture history / translation studies / marginalities in comparison / diasporic, exile, migrant, and ethnic minority writing / feminist theory and criticism / gay and lesbian writing / (comparative) popular culture / film and other media of cultural expression / lesser-known literatures in a comparative context / cross-disciplinary studies where culture incl. literary texts and literary problems are examined with the use of sociological, economic, psychological, historical, etc., frameworks and methods / the history of publishing, the book, and writing / pedagogy and culture incl. literature / studies of new trends in the study of literature and culture / and the introduction of new works and authors in a comparative context.

2) Procedures of Submission of Manuscripts and Procedures of Publication in the Purdue Series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
    2.1 Manuscripts are submitted electronically only and the evaluation process as well as the editing process including correspondence between the series editor and authors is via e-mail and with attachments.
    2.2 The normal length of the evaluation of a manuscript takes approximately three months. In addition to evaluation by the series editor, upon selection by the series editor two expert readers are contracted by Purdue University Press for the evaluation of a manuscript submitted for publication.
    2.3 Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication by the series editor, the manuscript is submitted to the Press for approval by its Editorial Board.
    2.4 Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication by Purdue University Press, the Press issues a formal letter of acceptance for publication to the author(s) of the manuscript.
    2.5 The process of editing of the accepted manuscript is with the series editor and the author(s) of the manuscript. After the editing of the manuscript, it is sent to the Press for type setting and copy editing. From the time of submission of the edited mansucript by the series editor to the Press, the process of formatting, type setting, copy editing, and indexing of a manuscript takes up to nine months.
    2.6 Publication of books in the series is two times per year, in the Spring and in the Fall of the year.
    2.7 Publication of books in the series is in the modes of print-on-demand publishing and the Digital-I program of the Press (e-book format with e.g. Microsoft Reader).
    2.8 Style Guide (see also the CLCWeb style guide)
    2.8.1 Manuscripts are published in the style of the MLA: Modern Language Association of America parenthetical sources and a works cited (with the exception of no footnotes or end notes).
    2.8.2 A 200-word abstract of the text and a 200-word bio detail of the author or authors is required.
    2.8.3 Spelling in the books of the series is consistent whether American (e.g., "center" or "neighbor") or British, Canadian, Australian, etc. (e.g., "centre" or "neighbour"), possessive is "Jones's book contains"; lists of items are with commas as in "her letters, articles, and books indicate that"; etc.
    2.8.4. Sources are cited by name of author followed by the title of publication (the year of publication is listed only if the author has more than one publication) and the page number(s) of the source; in quotations of non-English sources the English translation is preferred, followed by the original-language text of the quotation (and both sources are listed in the Works Cited).

3) List of Volumes in the Purdue Series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies

3.1 Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 1. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55753-240-0. 217 pages, bibliography, index. Paper, US$ 24.95. Orders to <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu> or 1-800-247-6553. The volume contains selected papers of conferences organized by the editor, Steven Totosy, in 1999 and 2000 in Canada and the US on various topics of culture and literature in Central and East Europe. Based on the (contested) notion of the existence of a specific cultural context of the region defined as "Central Europe," contributors to the volume discuss comparative cultural studies as a theoretical framework (Steven Totosy), modernism in Central European literature (Andrea Fábry), Central European Holocaust poetry (Zsuzsanna Ozsváth), gender in Central European literature and film (Anikó Imre), Austroslovakism in the work of Slovak writer Anton Hykisch (Peter Petro), Kundera and the identity of Central Europe (Hana Pichova), public intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 (Katherine Arens), contemporary Austrian and Hungarian cinema (Catherine Portuges), the notion of peripherality in contemporary East European culture (Roumiana Deltcheva), and Central European Jewish family history in the film Sunshine (Susan Rubin Suleiman). The volume includes a bibliography for the study of Central European culture (Steven Totosy), biographical abstracts of contributors, and an index.

3.2 Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 2. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, forthcoming in Fall 2002. The volume is the first annual of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/>, a thematic volume with selected papers from material published in the journal in volumes 1.1-4 of 1999 and 2.1-4 of 2000. The papers are with focus on theories and histories of comparative literature and the emerging field of comparative cultural studies. Contributors are Kwaku Asante-Darko on African postcolonial literature, Hendrik Birus on Goethe's concept of world literature, Amiya Dev on comparative literature in India, Marián Gálik on interliterariness, Ernst Grabovszki on globalization, new media, and world literature, Jan Walsh Hokenson on the culture of the context, Marko Juvan on literariness, Karl S.Y. Kao on metaphor, Kristof Jacek Kozak on comparative literature in Slovenia, Manuela Mourão on comparative literature in the USA, Jola Skulj on cultural identity, Slobodan Sucur on period styles and theory, Peter Swirski on popular and highbrow literature, Antony Tatlow on textual anthropology, William H. Thornton on East/West power politics in cultural studies, Steven Totosy on comparative cultural studies, and Xiaoyi Zhou and Q.S. Tong on comparative literature in China. The papers are followed by a bibliography of scholarship in comparative literature and cultural studies, compiled by Steven Totosy, Steven Aoun, and Wendy C. Nielsen and an index.

3.3 Sophia McClennen, The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 3. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, forthcoming in Spring 2003. The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied tradition, in criticism exile writing is is perceived according to a binary logic where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. In her book, Sophia A. McClennen offers a theory of exile writing that accounts for the persistence of these dual impulses and for the ways that they often co-exist within the same literary works.Focusing on writers working in the latter part of the twentieth century who were exiled during a historical moment of increasing globalization, transnational economics, and the theoretical shifts of postmodernism, McClennen
proposes that exile literature is best understood as a series of dialectic tensions about cultural identity. Through comparative analysis of Juan Goytisolo (Spain), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), McClennen explores how these writers represent exile identity. In each chapter of the book, the author addresses dilemmas central to debates over cultural identity such as nationalism versus globalization, time as historical or cyclical, language as representationally accurate or disconnected from reality, and social
space as utopic or dystopic. The author demonstrates how the complex writing of these three authors functions as an alternative discourse of cultural identity that not only challenges official versions imposed by authoritarian regimes, but also tests the limits of much cultural criticism.

3.4 Jin Feng, From "Girl Student" to "Woman Revolutionary": Deracinated Women in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 4. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, forthcoming in Fall 2003. Representation of the "new woman" in Chinese fiction was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals. Previous scholarship on fiction of the period probed occasionally the thematic implications of female characters in specific works but has not engaged in systematic study of the "new woman" as a figure through a discussion of the politics of the narrative form. Jin Feng addresses both the general and the specialized audience of fiction in early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways: for scholars of the May Fourth period, Feng redresses the emphasis on the simplistic, gender-neutral representation of the new women by re-reading selected texts in the light of marginalized discourse and by an analysis of the evolving strategies of narrative deployment; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the representation of Chinese women through an interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for studies of modernity and modernization, the author presents a more complex picture of the relationships of modern Chinese intellectuals to their cultural past and of women writers to a literary tradition dominated by men.

3.5 Comparative Cultural Studies of Latin America. Ed. Sophia McClennen and Earl E. Fitz. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 5. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, forthcoming in Fall 2003. The volume is the second annual of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/>, a thematic volume with selected papers from material published in the journal in volumes 3.1-4 (2001) and 4.1-4 (2002).

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