{"id":358,"date":"2024-04-24T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uslit.sav.sk\/en\/?p=358"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:40:44","slug":"call-for-papers-sylvia-plath-among-strangers-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/call-for-papers-sylvia-plath-among-strangers-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Sylvia Plath among Strangers around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international network SPAW (Sylvia Plath around the World) invites scholars to contribute to an international anthology about Sylvia Plath and translation from a global perspective. Scholarly texts, written in English, about a wide range of topics concerning Plath and translation, reception, adaptation and influence are welcome.<\/p>\n

Sylvia Plath is a well-known and highly influential 20th century author, and her writing has paved the way for significant changes especially in women writers\u2019 subject matter, literary forms, and techniques from the late 1960s onwards. Plath\u2019s novel The Bell Jar<\/em> (1963) is a modern classic, and the publication of her poetry collection Ariel<\/em> (1965) is considered an important literary event in 20th century literary history. Describing Plath\u2019s influence on American poetry, Linda Wagner-Martin claims that \u201dthe results of the impact of Plath\u2019s work are as pervasive as the influence of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s terse yet open prose\u201d (2006: 52), and depicting Plath\u2019s effect on British poetry, Fiona Sampson has asserted that: \u201dPlath\u2019s influence has passed into the vocabulary of the poetically possible: in English but potentially in the many languages into which she is translated\u201d (2019: 357).<\/p>\n

Plath\u2019s influence has indeed transcended national and language borders. For example, Ivana Hostov\u00e1 has shown how Plath was translated into Slovak in the late 1980s, which influenced a number of prominent Slovak women poets in their writing\u00a0 and inspired numerous plays and poems being written of and about Plath. In a similar fashion, Jennifer Feeley has analyzed how different Plath translations impacted Chinese women\u2019s poetry in the 1980s and 1990s resulting in \u201ca bold new gendered poetics that marks a turning point in Chinese women\u2019s writing\u201d (Feeley, 2017: 38). Anna-Klara Boj\u00f6 has shown that in Sweden, Plath was not received primarily as a feminist poet, but rather as a renewer of modernist lyricisms, and, taking a different angle on the subject of Plath in translation, Sof\u00eda Monz\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez has analyzed how the Francoist censorship board banned Plath\u2019s texts on account of their sexually explicit and profane language.<\/p>\n

Although Plath\u2019s prose and poems have been translated into more than 30 languages, research concerning the translation and transmission processes, Plath’s reception and influence stretching beyond English language borders is not readily available. We, the editors, therefore invite scholars around the world to contribute to an anthology concerning translation, reception and influence of Sylvia Plath in a global perspective.<\/p>\n

We ask interested writers to submit an abstract (about 300 words) before September 15th, 2024.<\/p>\n

Preliminary deadline for papers is May 1st, 2025.<\/p>\n

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Sylvia Plath and:<\/p>\n

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