UPDATE: Because of an e-mail address error on the NEMLA website, the
deadline for abstracts is now September 22. If any abstracts were sent to
yasmin.degout@yale.edu, please re-send to yasmin.degout@aya.yale.edu.
Apologies to all and the original Call for Papers follows:
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Northeast Modern Language Association
March 30-31, 2001
Hartford, Connecticut
TITLE: African American Homoeroticism: Identity Politics and Subterfuge in
the
Genres of the Harlem Renaissance
This panel focuses on the homoerotics of the Harlem Renaissance
and the need to create forums designed to bring the most recent
scholarship of Gay and Lesbian Studies to the treatment of texts and authors
whose complex identity politics (e.g., Toomer, McKay, Larsen, Grimke
and Cullen) were often muted by the political constraints of the era.
While the panel retains attention to literary figures, it will
highlight figures central to the era and needful for a broader analysis of
the identity politics and subterfuge of the era, among these Bruce Nugent,
Alain Locke, Wallace Thurman and Langston Hughes, as well as Bessie Smith,
Gladys Bently and Ma Rainey. In fact, central to this panel, as indicated
by the title, will be greater attention to the variety of genres though
which notions of identity were constructed and challenged in this
era-musical and visual genres (e.g., the blues--"Sissy Man Blues") and
other cultural manifestations of the homoerotic (e.g., the "jazz scene"),
in addition to literary texts. The focus on inter- and multidisciplinary
approaches to sexuality as constructed during the Harlem Renaissance finds
it antecedent in the work of Hazel Carby, who reveals the need to bring
non-literary genres bare upon discussion of sexuality in treatments of
this era by identifying alternative and challenging narratives of sexual
empowerment in the blues. This being the focus, presenters may also draw
from the variety of issues, theories and rubrics of Gay and Lesbian
Studies or of Gender Studies to discuss such texts-issues ranging from the
politics of self-conscious community formation to the politics of textual
subterfuge and resistance, or the politics of teaching such texts/issues
in the contemporary classroom.
Presentations will be 15-20 minutes and all accepted panelists must be
members of NEMLA by November 1, 2000. Information on NEMLA is available on
their website: http://www.anna-maria.edu/nemla.
Please send cover letter, two page abstract via email (as message, not
attachment), as well as specifying any audiovisual needs, by September 22 to:
yasmin.degout@aya.yale.edu.
SNAIL MAIL TO:
Yasmin Y. DeGout
1301 Mass. Ave., NW, Apt. 601
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 347-0049
FAX TO:
(202) 806-6708
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