Call for Papers for a proposed MLA special session
Women's Experimental Fiction: Thinking Gender in/as/through Language
Modern Language Association, New Orleans
December 27-30, 2001
Seeking paper proposals that explore the relationship between
innovations in form and language in women's experimental fiction as a
thinking about, or a critique of, gender.
In Subversive Intent, Susan Suleiman writes, "The avant-garde woman
writer is doubly intolerable.because her writing escapes not one but two
sets of expectations/ categorizations; it corresponds neither to the
"usual revolutionary point of view" nor to the "woman's point of view."
In her essay, "Illiterations," Christine Brooke-Rose remarks: "It seems
to me that the combination of woman + artist + experimental means so
much hard work and heartbreak and isolation that there must be little
time or energy for crying out loud." This panel will investigate the
relationship between innovations in form, language, and genre as a
thinking about, or a critique of, gender. We will also consider how such
poetics set women writers outside "logocentric" and "feminist"
discourses alike. Paper topics might explore connections between gender
and genre, marginalized aesthetics & authors, narrative as performance,
poetics of difference/critiques of poetics of difference, the resistance
to difficulty, and/or what terms like "innovative," "experimental," and
"avant-garde" mean for women writers.
All participants in MLA programs must be members of the MLA by April 1,
2001. Send abstract and c.v. by March 26 to
Christina Milletti
University of Rochester
Department of English
500 Wilson Boulevard
RC 270451
Rochester, NY 14627-0451
RC 270451
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