1) Aims and Objectives of the Series
    The series 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 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, 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, 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 781-729-1680.
    Areas of interest in the series include new work in literary, critical, and culture theory and methods / comparative cultural studies / cultural studies / comparative communication and media studies incl. 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 Series
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    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.
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    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 length of  formatting, type setting, and copy editing of a mansucript is normally up to eight months.
    2.6 Publication of manuscripts is two times per year, in the Spring and in the Fall.
    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 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 Purdue 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, comp., also online at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/centraleuropeanculture(bibliography).html>), 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. CLCWeb annual 2002. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2002. 327 pages, bibliography, index. ISBN 1-55753-290-7 (paper), US$ 34.95, ISBN 1-55753-288-5 (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, a thematic volume with selected papers from material published in the journal 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 A. 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, 2002. The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works 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 texts by Juan Goytisolo (Spain), Ariel Dorfman (Chile), and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay), McClennen analyses how the works of these writers represent exile identity. In each chapter McClennen 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. McClennen 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, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 4. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, forthcoming in Fall 2003. 200 pages, bibliography, index. Representation of the "new woman" in early twentieth-century 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 from this period has probed the thematic implications of female characters in specific works but has not engaged in systematic study of the dynamic interaction between the narrative forms and their sociopolitical context in the representation and deployment of the emotionality of this "new woman." In her book, Jin Feng undertakes just such an examination, addressing general and specialist audiences of early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways. First, attending to prevalent scholarship on the May Fourth period, Feng redresses its emphasis on a theme-based interpretation of the representation of the new women by re-reading selected texts in the light of marginalized forms of literary discourse from the same period and by analyzing the evolving strategies of narrative deployment employed in May Fourth fiction; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the gender-inflected representation of Chinese women through integration of the interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for students of modernity and modernization, she presents a detailed analysis 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. CLCWeb annual 2003. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, forthcoming in Fall 2003. 200 pages, bibliography, index. This volume of essays was first published as a thematic issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.2 (2002), guest edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz and entitled Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America. The genesis for this project stemmed from a growing conviction on the part 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 project "A Comparative History of the Literary Cultures of 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.

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