Call for Papers:

Panel on Cultural Expression in Post-Authoritarian European Regimes.

4th Biannual Austrian Conference on Contemporary History 99. Graz, Austria, 29 May 1999.

The collapse of authoritarian European regimes over the last twenty-five years has led to powerful socio-political, economic, and cultural transformations. How closely have literary, cinematic, theatrical and other arts in the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and other such countries followed Spain's post-Franco periodization?
(1) A Revolutionary period ending in the early 1990s, characterized by democratization, vastly increased labor mobility and the influx of foreign investment. This revolutionary condition registers in cultural expression of liberation, deconstruction of the authoritarian legacy, and, especially an erotically transgressive art and literature.
(2) A Consolidating period beginning in the 1990s, characterized by policies of wage restraint and anti-inflation strategies in order to prepare the country for full entry into the European monetary and economic system. This consolidation is reflected in an art which turns inward, that is, away from political agitation, and instead turns toward introspection, individual existentialist concerns, commodification, alienation, and other such problems associated with free-market capitalism.

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Subject: CFP: Cultural Expression in Post-Authoritarian European Regimes
Date: 7.1.1999

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