UPDATE: Deadline extended to 1/16/04
Call for Papers
SCMLA 2004 (New Orleans) October 28-30 2004 (Special Session)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Queering Americana through Cinematic Spectacle
The 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch is rooted in classical mythology, set in contemporary America, and steeped in issues and images ranging from transgender to Christian identities. The film is part of a growing body of artistic work that exemplifies the fluidity of sexuality, spirituality, corporeality, and gender that underlies fundamental questions of identity. Among these, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is distinctive in that it depicts characters who, though often physically and psychologically fractured from attempting to negotiate heteronormative discourses from liminal positions, unapologetically embrace their unstable selves to find ways of accepting fluid identities that can exist outside a heterosexual norm.
Because Hedwig and the Angry Inch represents the intersection of postmodern and classical discourses, it is open for a variety of interpretations that, in more accessible, narrative terms, inform the complex theories that have marked a mainstream acknowledgement, but not acceptance, of alternative ways of being. This panel will view Hedwig and the Angry Inch from a variety of standpoints, aiming to articulate the ways that it and its related issues demonstrate recently evolving possibilities of identity.
Topics might include (but are not limited to)—
--Classical or mythological allusions
--Religious symbolism
--Identity
--Transformations and/or disguise
--Gender, sexuality, queer theory
--Language and/or power
--Class issues
--Political/governmental structures
--Commercialism/commerce
--Violence and/or body integrity (corporeality)
--Hedwig in a context of similar cultural or literary texts
Please send abstracts of 300-500 words as MS Word attachments to session chair Catherine Ozment by January 16, 2003 at cozment@uark.edu.
Catherine Ozment
Department of English
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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