CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PROPOSED SESSION AT MLA 2000
"Imaginary Boundaries: Gender and Utopian Literature
This panel will address the question of gender and the body in utopian
literature (in any language) from the 17th-20th centuries, but proposals
are especially welcome from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Some topics of interest for proposals might be:
--What is the relationship between subjectivity and sexuality in imaginary
societies?
--What do fictive genders or bodies reveal about the dream and/or tensions
of their cultural context?
--What is the role of the monster, the freak or the abject in utopia?
--What do utopian subjects have to say about sexuality?
--Is there a space for the "queer" subject in utopian literature of the
classical age?
--Can the body offer a resistance to a dominant ideology?
--What are the limits of the body as they are explored in Utopian
fictions?
Submissions are welcome from a variety of disciplines, and graduate
students are welcome to submit. Please submit a 250-word abstract in the
text of your e-mail (not as an attachment) to the address below by March
20.
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