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, Theory and Popular Culture
in
Contemporary Texts
The panel seeks presentations which draw critical attention
to homoerotic cultural production by and about Blacks following the Black
Arts Movement of the 1960's. Topics may include a variety of artistic and
literary forms and genres, including texts by authors such as Melvin Dixon,
Audre Lorde, James
Baldwin, Pat Parker, Cheryl Clarke, June Jordan, Assotto Saint, Carl
Phillips, Samuel Delany, Essex Hemphill, Marlon Riggs, and others. In
addition to such texts, selection of papers will also seek to draw
together those who focus on a selection of other genres: Black gay and
lesbian Hip Hop texts (e.g., those by James Earl Hardy and contemporary
musical genres); Black gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender images in
contemporary film (e.g., Tongues Untied, Looking for Langston, The
Watermelon Woman, Bad Ass Super Mamas, Punks, and Paris Is Burning); and
Black Gay and Lesbian experience as represented on the Internet.
Given the range and amount of recent cultural production by
contemporary Black gay and lesbian writers and artists, the challenges
of the panel will be to present the analyses which are of most interest
to the membership, which are most critically cutting-edge and which
present the widest range of interconnected multidisciplinary treatments
of contemporary African American homoeroticism. Given the range or
material available in the selected genres, attention will also be given
to those pieces which address the key terms in the panel title:
"identity," "theory" and "popular culture." Those pieces which focus on
the newest aspects of identity politics, on (Black) gay and lesbian
literary and cultural theory and, in at least a selection of the papers,
on the connection between these and popular culture and technology, will
be given priority, the purpose being both the insertion of voices and
issues pertaining to African American homoeroticism into the broader
discourse (and visa versa).
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:
Dre59@aol.com.
SNAIL MAIL TO:
Andre Hoyrd
1801 16th Street, NW, # 703
Washington, DC 20009
PHONE: (202) 232-4479
FAX TO: (202) 806-6708
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