Im a seeking submissions for a proposed panel titled
"Re-constructing Heterosexuality, Challenging Heteronormativity"
The panel will challenge a narrow and essentialized notion of
"heterosexuality" through critical readings of various representations
of heterosexual identities and practices in contemporary literary texts,
cinema, TV, performances and other media. It will thereby respond to the
challenges and limitations of queer and feminist theories of
heterosexual subjectivities.
I am interested in a whole range of different outlooks and practices
within what was once imagined to be "straight" sexual identification. Of
particular interest are the power differentials of race, class, gender
etc., the instabilities of heterosexual subject positions and the
different performances of straightness. The following questions should
be considered: How do the literary and cultural re-constructions of
heterosexuality participate in a radical critique of sexuality? How does
the potential denaturalization of heterosexuality undermine or reaffirm
hegemonic subject positions? E-mail 300-word abstract and CV to Annette
Schlichter, aschlich@uci.edu by January 16.
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