CALL FOR PAPERS Director Corin Braga “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Volume 19/2010 Communism: Negotiation of Boundaries / Communisme: Négociation des confins Coordinators: Sanda Cordoş and Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu
The idea of “boundary” represents one of the main coordinates of communism as it was imposed to the Eastern European societies. The symbolical boundary (a sort of imaginary “picked fences”) was present in all areas of life, from the closed geographical borders to the ideological restrictions forced upon culture and literature (as a new - ideologically imposed - “canon”). Professional and even private life was subject to various boundaries (from the freedom of speech to the controlled distribution of workplaces, houses, food, everyday items and so on). The system would decide - instead of the individual - which are the accepted limits within which people should live. People had to deal with this restricted, artificial manner of living and working. The attitude people adopted towards this “bounding” ideology had three main forms: acceptance, negotiation and attempt to flight. The present issue of Caietele Echinox / Echinox Journal is interested in gathering academic papers on the subject of communism in relation to the idea of boundary, restriction, limit, especially in the East European cultures.
The papers should be written in English or French. They should have about 10 pages (1.5 line spacing), an abstract and a few key-words in English. Coordinator
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