Extended Deadline "Global Queer Taste" 30 June 2004 - Please help circulate!
Call for Paper for American Society For Theater Research 2004 National =
Conference at Las Vegas =
(http://www.astr.umd.edu/conference2004/ASTRConference_call_seminar.html#05)
Global Queer Tastes:
Performance in Inter-Asian and Inter-African Perspectives=20
Eng-Beng Lim, University of California at Los Angeles
Tavia Nyong'o, New York University=20
In recent years, a body of scholarship under the rubric of "global =
queering" is pointing to an emergent "lesbian and gay world" or signs of =
what we think of as "modern" homosexuality. According to this =
scholarship, this "global subculture'" is dominated primarily by the =
lesbian and gay cultural models of the USA and secondarily Europe. For =
better or worse, "universal" and "modern" are considered to be Western =
properties in this global cultural imaginary of "queer," "lesbian," =
"gay," and/or "transgender." Such an unquestioned presumption in =
comparative queer studies reiterates the dualities that fix the =
non-Western world as "local" and the West as "global." Notably, much of =
this scholarship is inflected by a white gay male optic that uses a =
style of enlightened postcolonial ethnography, acknowledging the =
privilege of its gaze while nonetheless replicating some dimensions of =
Western economic and cultural hegemony. Queer "Asia" and queer "Africa" =
emerge in this literature as sites of inquiry situated within a =
suspiciously neoliberal topography.
In this seminar we will propose ways of exploring queer "Asia" and queer =
"Africa" that not only subvert the dominance of white queer culture, but =
which also examine the inter-Asian and inter-African dimensions of queer =
globalizations that have been neglected by scholars. Using theatre and =
performance as our guiding scenarios, we seek an active engagement in =
the queer cultural resources circulating within Asia, Africa, and their =
diasporas. We are reintroducing a discussion of neoliberalism and =
US/European cultural hegemony in a literature that presupposes and =
ignores it. But we also seek to expand the critical parameters of such =
binaries as "East/West" and "North/South" to include circuits of =
mobility within the "East" and/or "South," and forces other than =
neoliberalism, that effect the inter-Asian and inter-African circulation =
of queer cultures. We seek a wide variety of proposals and suggested =
topics include the following:
a.. What constitutes queer Asian and/or queer African taste?
b.. How are queer tastes performed in specific national contexts, =
amidst particular national liberation movements or in transnational =
worlds?=20
c.. How are they inflected by consumer culture and tourism?=20
d.. How do Asian and African theatre companies code queerness in their =
productions?=20
e.. How is queer taste displayed in the performances of everyday life? =
While all disciplinary and epistemic approaches are welcome, we are =
particularly interested in those that deal critically with the =
intersection of globalization, queer, feminist, diaspora, and area =
studies. Suggestions of related topics are welcome, and we encourage =
scholars from Africa and Asia to submit proposals. Essays should be of =
conference paper length, 10-12 pages
Please submit a 250 to 500 word abstract (attached or pasted in an =
email) by June 30 to:
Eng-Beng Lim, eb@ucla.edu
AND Tavia Nyong'o tavia.nyongo@nyu.edu
If email is not available, hard-copy submissions, also due by June 30, =
2004 (deadline extended), may be made to:=20
Eng-Beng Lim
UCLA Theatre, Critical Studies & International Institute
11343 Bunche Hall, Box 951487, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487.
and
Tavia Nyong'o
New York University Performance Studies
721 Broadway, Room 628, New York, NY 10003
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