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 Backlash in
Texts
from 1940 through the Black Arts Movement
This panel takes as its purpose the exploration of African American
cultural production by both men and women from the period following the
Harlem Renaissance through the era known as the Black Arts Movement as
such exploration pertains to the politics of and response to the
homoerotic in such texts. Moreover, it aims to realize a forum in which
attention to African American homoeroticism of this era--beginning in
1940 and continuing through the 1960's--can both inform the theories and
concerns of contemporary Gay and Lesbian Studies and be informed by
them, as is now the case with very few Black authors of this era
(Baldwin being the most notable).
At the same time, the panel presents itself as a project of recovery
in a least two ways. First, the panel seeks to gather attention on
African American homoeroticism of this era, including texts by and about
women, such texts being generally overlooked and under-represented in
the field. Second, given the overt homophobia of the discourse of the
Black Arts/Black Power Movement (also under-acknowledged in the
academy), the panel seeks to reassess the politics of this discourse,
allowing presenters both to uncover resistance voices and to re/address
the backlash of era. As much as possible, the panel will also feature
not only literary texts-such as those by Hayden, Himes, Baldwin, Cleaver
and other men and women writers-but also other genres (examples being
the visual iconography of the Black Arts Movement or filmic genres) and
discourses (examples being the backlash against gay Civil Rights leaders
and newsprint narratives of this) as related to the literary production
of the era.
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:
barlee11@hotmail.com.
SNAIL MAIL TO:
Barlee Gbala
Department of English
Locke Hall, 248
2400 6th Street, NW
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059
OFFICE PHONE:
(202) 806-6730
FAX TO:
(202) 806-6708
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