X-eGroups-From: Mimi Nguyen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:48:14 +1000
Subject: [socgrad] SPOON-ANN: CFP: Performing Unnatural Acts
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PERFORMING UNNATURAL ACTS: CRITICALLY QUEERING RACIAL CULTURAL STUDIES
As the editors of a new anthology tentatively entitled, Performing
Unnatural Acts: Critically Queering Racial Cultural Studies, we seek
submissions interrogating the ways in which the categories of race and
queerness are produced, performed and engaged. Not surprisingly, most queer
scholarship assumes the white Western middle-class subject as its sole
referent,
ignoring race as a constitutive basis for the formation of subjectivities
in the fields of the psychic, the social, and the material. This extension
of the status quo is being challenged by a band of scholars who have called
for the decolonization of queer studies. By "adding a little color" to
queer theorizing's privileged subject/object and deconstructing the
heteronormativity of much ethnic studies scholarship--especially
trajectories invested in nationalist frameworks-- we hope to examine the
intersections of and slippages between discourses of sexuality and
discourses of race, racialization,
and ethnicity. To paraphrase Norma Alarcon, we want to know: what does it
mean, in the context of uneven race and class relations, to become queer in
opposition to other queers?
We are informed by multiple strategies (queer, feminist,
poststructuralist, and critical race theories) and are interested in the
politics of performativity and performance, cultural production, the
politics of identification, and of course, the politics of politics.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
CLAIMS TO CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALISMS: Black Nations, Queer Nations,
defining nationhood, borders, immigration, post-nationalisms, modernity.
QUEER / DIASPORAS: "homeland," "migranthood," transgression, domesticity,
postcoloniality.
PUBLIC SPACE AND MORAL PANICS: sex panics and white flight, zoning laws in
urban neighborhoods, public displays of queerness, criminality.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN QUEER GOES TRANSNATIONAL? questions of travel, tourism,
globalization, the (concept of ) "queer" crossing borders.
THEORIZING THE CYBORG: transgendered, transsexual, issues of technology,
inorganicity, "unnaturalness."
DECONSTRUCTING (QUEER) WHITENESS
QUEER IN THE ACADEMY: visibility politics, disciplinarity.
REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION
There are, or course, plenty of additional issues that can be addressed
under the rubric of "Performing Unnatural Acts," and we encourage
submissions reflecting a broad range of historical locations, areas of
study and theoretical positions.
Send double spaced manuscripts (between 25 and 30 pages) in hard copy, as
well as in a 3.5" floppy disk in either Mac or PC format, a brief
biographical statement, and a stamped self-addressed envelope to the
address below. We are presently deciding on a publisher for this volume.
The deadline is November 15, 2000. For questions, please contact the
editors via e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Queer Ethnic Studies Working Group
506 Barrows Hall, University of
California, Berkeley, CA 94720
Karina Cespedes
Vernadette Gonzalez
Mimi Nguyen
Mattie Richardson
Visit the Queer Ethnic Studies web-site at:
<http://www.worsethanqueer.com/conference>http://www.worsethanqueer.com/conf
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nce.
Not yet updated, but soon revised!
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