CALL FOR PAPERS
For a proposed Special Session at SCMLA '03 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, I
am seeking papers that explore the intersection of homoeroticism and
lynching. I am particularly interested in approaches that deal with
castration and the attendant phallic relations occurring between the
white lyncher and the (ostensibly) black lynching victim, or what Robyn
Wiegman calls "the image of white men embracing -- with hate, fear, and
a chilling form of empowered delight -- the same penis they were so
over-determinedly driven to destroy." Other approaches, however, are
welcome and can explore either fictional lynchings or non-fictional
lynching "narratives" such as those contained in _Without Lynching._
250-word abstracts, along with CV, should be surface-mailed no later
than February 1, 2003, to:
Nathan G. Tipton
Department of English
The University of Memphis
82 Stonewall Street
Memphis, Tennessee 38104-2456
or emailed as plain text or MS Word attachment to ntipton@memphis.edu
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