Feminist Literary Criticism - Historical and Transnational Perspectives

Welcome to the closing symposium of the research project Generation, National Identity, the Body: Polish and Russian Women's Writing in Transformation (PURU, www.womenswriting.fi) affiliated to the University of Tampere, School of Modern Languages and TranslationStudies (2007-2010).

The aim of the PURU research group has been to investigate what happens to feminist literary theories and concepts when applied in the (post-socialist) East European context; to engage a comparative approach to women's writing and to investigate subjectivities situated in Russian and Polish culture and literature. For this symposium the research group has invited well-known scholars of Polish, Finnish, and Russian literature to look at women's writing in a cross-cultural feminist perspective.

For more information, see the programme (pdf)

Contact: Arja Rosenholm (arja.rosenholm(a)uta.fi) and Marja Rytkönen (marja.rytkonen(a)uta.fi)