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Synthesis is a scholarly journal of literature and culture,
emerging as a response to the call for a new or renewed literary praxis that returns to the literary text without any resistance to the variety of theoretical discourses and rethinks the question of the political with which the literary is critically intertwined. Located in a non-Anglophone European country and investing in the wide area of English Studies, this new journal seeks to become a site where different positions and propositions can coexist in an agonistic and interactive way; thereby its name syn-thesis that opens to the variants of
synthesis and syntheses.
Encouraging comparative interdisciplinary and inter-/cross-cultural perspectives, Synthesis also addresses how metropolitan and Anglocentric politics permeate practices in English studies in non-metropolitan and, in particular, non-Anglophone places.
Synthesis proposes the position that this is the case not only in postcolonial nations but also in Europe; while these local, non-metropolitan sites like Greece once were under the hegemony of Anglocentric
traditions, they now generate new voices and mappings that critically engage with hegemonic discourses.
With the firm belief that these contexts are sites of knowledge production and not master-mimicry, the collective board of
Synthesis solicits articles that critique, challenge and rethink a variety of theoretical and literary discourses and articulate new positions (theses) that get together
(syn) in both dissonance and harmony. |
