CFP: Sexing the Cherry: Jeanette Winterson and Contemporary Literary Studies (9/25/03; NEMLA, 3/3/04-3/7/04)

Jeanette Winterson has, by 2003, become a major force in contemporary fiction; her work is widely anthologized, oft-discussed within the academy, and has recently been the subject of a rather large number of critical essays. At present, a handful of book-length studies have focused on her novels, including _Sponsored By Demons: The Art of Jeanette Winterson_ (1999) and a collection of essays entitled _“I’m Telling You Stories”: Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading_ (1998). In this panel, we will examine the ways that Winterson’s work is being approached by literary scholars, and seek to offer illuminating conceptual models with which to meet her texts.

Submissions should address interpretive possibilities in/for Winterson’s novels specifically, but could situate them more broadly within the current state of contemporary lesbian fiction, British fiction, fiction written by women — or any mix of these — in literary studies.

Possible subtopics could include (but are not limited to):
- magical realism in _Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit_, _The
        Passion_, and/or _Sexing the Cherry_
- the politics of sexuality in Winterson’s fiction and criticism
- Winterson and Woolf
- British national identities and contemporary class relations
- Winterson and mass media
- pedagogical approaches to Winterson’s work

Please submit a 250-500 word abstract to Ellen McWhorter(emcwhort_at_uiuc.edu) by September 25, 2003. Attachments preferred.

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