I will propose the following as a Special Session for the MLA 2000 conference
(note: you must be a member of MLA by April 1, 2000, to be considered for
this panel).
Modernisms and Masculinities
The recent resurgence in modernist studies has been marked in part by a
renewed focus on questions of identities, particularly as seen through the
lenses of race, gender, and sexuality.
This panel will explore masculinities as they are constructed and performed
in American modernist literature and culture. Papers might address various
texts (e.g., novels, film, advertisements,
etc.) and should explore masculine identities as they are enacted,
reflected, and/or performed in different versions of modernism. Papers
that focus on the male body and its modernist constructions will be
particularly welcome.
Panelists might address questions such as the following:
-- How do modernist writers, artists, and thinkers construct masculinities
in their work?
-- How are different masculinities performed in conflict with, or in
concert with, one another in modernism?
-- How do race, class, sexuality, or other cultural markers inflect
masculinity in the modernist period?
-- How do certain definitions of American modernism include or exclude
particular definitions of manhood (and vice versa)?
-- How are our canonical texts of the American modernist period marked by
specific definitions of masculinity? How do those definitions change (or
not) in popular works?
Include a list of any audiovisual equipment you will need along with your
abstract.
Please send 1-2 page abstracts and a one-page CV via email no later than
March 29, 2000, to:
David E. Magill
University of Kentucky
Department of English
1215 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506
demagi0@pop.uky.edu
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