"Queer Times, Diasporic Spaces, Perverse Aesthetics"
[Proposed Special Session at the ACLA Annual Conference 2001
"Topos/Chronos": Aesthetics for a New Millennium]
Mapping the theoretical and spatiotemporal intersections (or disjunctures)
of queer times and diasporic spaces (or the "histories" and "topographies"
of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, race within a transnationalist frame), this
panel proposes a critical examination of recent interventions in Queer and
Diasporic Studies around issues of space, time, and embodiment (particularly
as such interventions confound material/aesthetic dichotomization). One
objective of the panel is to historicize (and politicize) constructions of
gender, sexuality and spatiality, mapping the imbricated cartographies of
nationalism, gender, sexuality and territorial boundaries.
Papers could address theorizations of space-time in Elizabeth Grosz’s Space,
Time and Perversion; Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter; Cynthia Patton and
Benigno Sanchez-Eppler’s Queer Diasporas; or theorizations of queerness and
diaspora in relation to nation-states and transnationalism by scholars such
as David Eng, Gayatri Gopinath, Jasbir Puar, Martin Manalansan, José Esteban
Muñoz, Robert Schwartzwald and others.
Papers could also explore cultural, artistic, literary or aesthetic
representations of queer times, diaspora spaces, queer spaces, diasporic
times, or any variant of queer or diasporized spatiotemporal borders. Other
suggestions include: the spaces/s-time/s of sex acts and diasporic
movements; sex and migration; sexual migration; queer bodies; diasporic
bodies; queer and/or diasporic aesthetics; perverting aesthetics; queer
ethics, diasporic ethics, and an-aesthetics.
DEADLINE:
Send 2-page paper abstract and a brief c.v. by September 10, 2000 to: Jana
Evans Braziel, 431I North Hall, Department of English, University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1752 State Street, La Crosse, WI 54601. Abstract and
c.v. may also be faxed or sent electronically: FAX (608) 785-8301;
evans_braziel@hotmail.com or jbraziel@uwlax.edu.
ABOUT ACLA 2001:
"'Topos/Chronos': Aesthetics for a New Millennium," ACLA 2001 Conference is
sponsored by the University of Colorado, Boulder. April 20-22, 2001.
The ACLA Conference follows a seminar format with 12+ papers organized
around a common theme or point of inquiry; the seminar meets for 2-3 days.
Concurrent seminars and sessions are held in the morning and in the
afternoon. For more information on the ACLA Conference see:
http://www.colorado.edu/comparativeliterature/acla2001/
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