1) list of ccs-purdue volumes / 2) objectives of the ccs-purdue series / 3) procedures of ms submission to ccs-purdue

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

2002

1.2002 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.

2003

2.2003 Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 2. CLCWeb Annual 1 (2002). West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2003. ISBN 1-55753-288-5 (ebook), ISBN 1-55753-290-7 (pbk). 356 pages, bibliography, index. Paper, US$ 34.95, e-book US$ 8.95. Orders to <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu> or 1-800-247-6553. 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.

3.2003 McClennen, Sophia A. The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 3. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2003. ca. 200 pages, bibliography, index. 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.

4.2003 Comparative Cultural Studies of Latin America. Ed. Sophia McClennen and Earl E. Fitz. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 4. CLCWeb Annual 2 (2003). West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2003. ca. 250 pages, bibliography, index. 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), edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz. The genesis of the texts in the volume is in the growing conviction of the editors that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions. The editors argue that there still exists, in some quarters, a lingering bias against literature written in Spanish and Portuguese and that by embracing Latin American literature more enthusiastically, comparative literature in the context of comparative cultural studies would find itself reinvigorated, placed into productive discourse with a host of issues, languages, literatures, and cultures that have too long been paid scant attention in its purview. Following an introduction by the editors, the volume contains papers by Gene H. Bell-Villada on the question of canon, by Gordon Brotherston and Lúcia de Sá on the First Peoples of the Americas and their literature, by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez on the Latin American novel of the 1920s, by Román de la Campa on Latin American Studies, by Earl E. Fitz on Spanish American and Brazilian literature, by Roberto González Echevarría on Latin American and comparative literature, by Sophia A. McClennen on comparative literature and Latin American Studies, by Alberto Moreiras on Borges, by Julio Ortega on the critical debate about Latin American cultural studies, by Christina Marie Tourino on Cuban Americas in New York City, by Mario J. Valdés on the comparative history of literary cultures in Latin America, and by Lois Parkinson Zamora on comparative literature and globalization. Compiled by Sophia A. MCClennen, the volume also contains a bibliography of scholarship in comparative Latin American culture and literature and biographical abstracts of the contributors to the volume.

5.2003 Feng, Jin. The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 5. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, forthcoming in Fall 2003. ca. 250 pages, bibliography, index. 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.

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2004

6.2004 Roman, Constantin. Blouse Roumaine: An Encyclopaedia of Romanian Women. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 6. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004. ca. 400 pages, bibliography, illustrations, index. For samples of the volume's material link to <http://www.blouseroumaine.com>. The volume is a collection of biographical essays about Romanian women, from antiquity, through the middle ages to the present-day, with the greater emphasis on modern and contemporary women. Each entry is accompanied by a series of quotations and by a selected bibliography, or, as it may be, in the case of musicians by discography and by music credits of performances. An overview intended to incite the reader to look deeper into the cultural, social, and historical background of Romania, the material of the volume is by no means exhaustive. The composition of the biographical notes relates especially to the relationship between each individual woman and Romanian society, but more so to the relationship with the officialdom of the day: what achievements were made and how they were received, or acknowledged, what made these Romanian women turn into revolutionaries, political activists, underground resistant fighters, or political prisoners of concentration and labour camps, or took to the road of exile. The social range which these women come from is broad, from aristocrats to peasant farmers, from philosophers to scientists, from artists to lawyers, poets and academics or even a few "unknown illustrious." The different political or religious persuasions and ethnic extractions are also represented, offering a panoply of famous and infamous alike, some of a world repute, but more often than not names limited to a national circulation and that deserves a wider audience, especially in the English-speaking world. This dictionary-cum-anthology assembles for the first time the large Romanian Diaspora -- in Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and the USA -- side by side with the home-grown names, which stayed native, to brave the ire of the communist regime over the past fifty years, or indeed to collaborate with it.

7.2004 Civantos, Christina. Between Argentines and Arabs: The Writing of National and Immigrant Identities. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 7. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004. The volume centers on the presence of Arabs and the Arab world in Argentine literature and culture -- both as a figure within the imagination of the Euro-Argentine intellectual and as an actual community producing texts in the multi-ethnic Argentine nation. By focusing on the formation of cultural identity, Civantos discusses how the "Orient" -- as imagined by certain Argentines -- has played an important but heretofore unacknowledged role in Argentine national identity, as well as how these Argentine visions of  the Orient have entered into the identity of an Arab community in diaspora. Civantos approaches these issues by analyzing in juxtaposition, and with attention to the textual and interpretive nature of history and the contingent discursive and material context of literature, the writings of Euro-Argentines and Arab immigrants in Argentina. The book is both literary history -- of Argentine Orientalist literature and Arab Argentine immigrant literature -- and a critical analysis of how the formation of identities in these two bodies of work are connected rhetorically.

8.2004 Fojas, Camilla. Cosmopolitanism in the Americas. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 8. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004. Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production. Fojas argues that these two senses of cosmopolitanism are not mutually exclusive. Turn of the century Pan-American cosmopolitanism described international aesthetic culture and fashion drawn from major world cities, but it was also implicitly political, it held a promise of justice in the acceptance and coexistence of difference. Being cosmopolitan was an orientation towards the cosmopolis in a search for models of tolerance and openness for different lifestyles, ways of being, and gender and sexual identities. Although unrepentantly elitist, the cosmo-modernists transcended the genetic link between nationalisms and heteronormative versions of family often by turning to the classical model of a male homosocial. Fojas engages the work of Guatemalan Enrique Gómez Carrillo, the travel writings from the Chicago World's Fair of Cuban Aurelia Castillo de González, the Venezuelan journal Cosmópolis, and Rodó's infamous Ariel, all of which share a common principle of the practical application of cosmopolitanism. As international writers were debating what it meant to be cosmopolitan, from Bourget's typology of the authentic versus the poser to James's elite British-American venturer, the modernistas had already renovated the term, turning it into a practice with nationalist implications. They revisit the failures of Eurocentric cosmopolitanism by rewriting them, recasting them for a new audience and generally making use of them for their own purposes. But, above all, they grapple with cosmopolitanism, sometimes conceptualizing new models of hospitality and sometimes failing, nonetheless keeping the broken promise of utopic spaces and their imagined cities. These texts activate a cosmopolitan attitude by persuading the reader to be a bit more open, more modern, and more amenable to difference.

9.2004 Nobel in Literature 2002 Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 9. CLCWeb Annual 3 (2004). West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004. ca. 250 pages, bibliography, index. Edited by Louise O. Vasvari (State University of New York Stony Brook) and Steven Totosy de Zepetnek (Boston and University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), the volume contains papers about the work of Imre Kertesz, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2002, with selected papers about holocaust literature.

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2005

10.2005 Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Culture and Media Studies. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 10. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ca. 300 pages, bibliography, index. The volume is an attempt to redefine both cultural studies and media studies in the context of a framework and methodology of "comparative culture and media studies" followed by applications of the proposed framework. The proposed framework rests on previous and new work by the author with chapters in the volume as follows. Chapter One: "Histories of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies," Chapter Two: "Towards a Framework of Comparative Culture and Media Studies," Chapter Three: "New Media and Publishing in the Humanities," Chapter Four: "Towards a New Framework of Audience Studies," Chapter Five: "The Film Lord of the Rings and Its Audience," Chapter Six: "Image Transfer from Novel to Film: Schnitzler's Traumnovelle and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut," Chapter Seven: "A Comparative Analyis of Nobel in Literature 2002 Imre Kertesz's Reception in the US, Canadian, German, and Hungarian Media," Chapter Eight: "The Semiotics of Family Photography," Chapter Nine: "An Analysis of Cultural Participation in 2001-2002 in the US and Germany," Chapter Ten: "Universities as Media and Academics as a Commodity," Chapter Eleven: "A Taxonomy for Work in Comparative Culture and Media Studies," Chapter Twelve: "A Selected Bibliography of Works in Comparative Culture and Media Studies," a works cited and index.

11.2005 Gnisci, Armando. A Different History of European Literature. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 8. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004. In this book, Armando Gnisci proposes that literature is the only resource left to us today to stem the take-over of commercialism and de-culturation. Gnisci argues that "world literature" ceased to be the idea of a "dream" as in the Goethean concept and as the poets of Romanticism intended it and has become -- as Marx and Hegels were claiming in their 1848 Manifesto -- a commercial commodity of letters past, present, and future, bought and sold as mass culture. After a brief introduction, Gnisci proceeds to discuss aspects of literature in its Europan context and describes the work of the scholar who worked out the most effective criticism on various outlines and syntheses of Eurocentric "values" going under the name of theories and/or ideas of "European literature." Dionyz Durisin's theoretical framework of "interliterariness" has turned upside down the standard ideological set up: Durisin's model starts off with national literatures and moves on towards world literature through intermediate constellations of interliterary communities, and successive historico-geographical syntheses of so-called "interliterary centrisms." In Durisin's complex framework and approach, there is no room for any one-way dominant and "influencing" nation, and most of all, there does not exist a category, made more or less formal and explicit, pertaining to Western Europe understood as the "natural mother" of literary civilization. In Gnisci's interpretation Durisin overcomes Eurocentric and Western ideology with an imperceptible and silent gesture. By explicating Durisin's work, Gnisci provides the reader with an alternative and different history of European literature.

12.2005 Central European Culture after 1989. Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, Carmen Andras, and Magdalena Marsovszky. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 11. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. The volume contains selected papers from an international conference held at Targu Mures, Romania, in 2003: The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/centraleuropeconference(2003).html>.

13.2005 CLCWeb Annual 4 (2005).

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2006

14.2006 Schafer, Paul. From Economics towards an Age of Culture. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 12. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. The book is about the evolution, functioning, and assessment of the economic age and its characteristics, followed by a discussion about the evolution, functioning, and flowering of a possible future age of culture. The author's principal argument is that we must pass out of the present economic age and into a cultural age if human survival and environmental sustainability are to be assured in the future.

15.2006 Bartoloni, Paolo. About the Cultures of Exile, Writing, and Translation. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 14. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2006. ca. 300 pages, bibliography, index. The hypothesis of the book is based on the belief that a substantial and innovative discussion of the philosophical notions of immanence and potentiality is not only overdue but also necessary to address the social, political, cultural, and ethical aporia confronting us today. The phenomenon of globalization with its countless sub-narratives such as mobility, migration, security, authenticity, and inauthenticity can be thought and contextualized through a close reading and articulation of immanence and potentiality. The author's aim is threefold: 1) to provide a tangible and workable philosophical and cultural discourse within which to present an alternative understanding of subjectivity. This will be achieved by engaging in a theoretical discussion with the philosophical discourse on potentiality and immanence, of which the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben are among the most advanced and innovative examples to date, 2) to provide a virtual insight into the potential immanent subject and community through presenting a radically new interpretation of exile, translation, and temporality, and 3) to show how the experience of potentiality and immanence, and their ontological status have been explored and realized in literature through a close reading and articulation of a series of selected texts, especially works by Giorgio Caproni and Maurice Blanchot. The methodology of the study is interdisciplinary, ranging across literary theory, postmodern cultural analysis, hermeneutics, and comparative culture analysis.

2) 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 <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> -- a peer-reviewed, full-text, and public-access 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" in CLCWeb 1.3 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html> and "Constructivism and Comparative Cultural Studies" in CLCWeb (Library):
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/totosy(constructivism).html>. 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 (USA) or 49-(0)345-55-23632 (Germany). Areas of interest in the series include new work in (comparative) culture, literary, and critical 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 culture and literature / and the introduction of new works and authors in a comparative context.

3) Procedures of Submission of Manuscripts and Procedures of Publication in the Purdue Series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies
    3.1 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 only (however, the series editor and authors receive one hard copy of the manuscript for a last check before the manuscript is printed).
    3.2 The normal length of the evaluation of a manuscript takes about three months. In addition to an 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. Authors receive from the series editor a detailed evaluation -- composed from the comments by the expert readers -- of the manuscript submited for publication.
    3.3 Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication by the series editor, the manuscript is submitted to the Press for approval by its Editorial Board.
    3.4 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. In exceptional cases an advance contract of the publication of a book may be issued by the Press after discussion with the series editor.
    3.5 The process of editing of the accepted manuscript is with the series editor and the author(s) of the manuscript. 3.5.1 The indexing of the volume is in Word by the author of the volume in consultation with the series editor, 3.5.2 After the editing and coding for indexing of the volume, the manuscript is sent to the Press for type setting and copy editing, 3.5.3 From the time of submission of the edited manuscript by the series editor to the Press, the process of formatting, type setting, copy editing, and last check by the series editor and the author(s), the volume's process at the Press takes six to eight months until publication.
    3.6 Publication of books in the series is two times per year, in the Spring and in the Fall of the year.
    3.7 Publication of books in the series is in the modes of print-on-demand publishing in paperback and in the Digital-I program of the Press (e-book format with e.g. Microsoft Reader).
    3.8 Authors receive five complementary copies of the book.
    3.9 A 200-word abstract of the text and a 200-word bioprofile of the author(s) are required with the book, to be sent to the series editor.
    3.10 Authors are required to submit to the series editor a list of learned journals with postal addresses where the published book should be sent for review.
    3.11 Authors are required to submit minimum two, maximum three names of renown scholars in the field who could be contacted for brief texts of endorsement for the back cover of the book.
    3.12 Style Guide (for detail, see the CLCWeb style guide): 3.12.1 CCS-Purdue books are published in the style of the MLA: Modern Language Association of America parenthetical sources and a works cited (with the exception that footnotes or end notes are not allowed), 3.12.2 Spelling in the books of the series is consistent whether either American (e.g., "center" or "neighbor") or British, Canadian, Australian, etc. (e.g., "centre" or "neighbour"), 3.12.3 Possessive is "Jones's book contains," 3.12.4 Lists of items are with commas as in "her letters, articles, and books indicate that," etc., 3.12.5 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, 3.12.6 In the case of multiple works by one author, the author's name is repeated in the Works Cited for each publication, 3.12.7 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.

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