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The Anxiety of Influence in Post-Stonewall LGBTQ Literature.NEMLA 2013 Conference,Boston, MA, 3/21-3/24
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2012-09-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-08-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
196196 |
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This panel seeks papers that examine post-Stonewall American LGBTQ texts that draw upon earlier literature. The panel will be part of the NEMLA 2013 Conference,Boston, MA, 3/21-3/24. Edmund White characterized Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance as the gay Great Gatsby, and in both theme and structure Holleran’s novel does seem remarkably indebted to Fitzgerald’s work, even while its title explicitly refers to Yeats’ poem “Among School Children.” In Fun Home, Allison Bechdel uses a range of literary classics to frame her graphic memoir. In The Hours, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall Michael Cunningham has explicitly drawn upon and/or overtly revised prior texts like Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Whitman’s poetry, and Joyce’s “The Dead” respectively, offering queer reassessments of these literary giants. This panel seeks papers that examine post-Stonewall American LGBTQ literature that draws upon, interrogates, or responds to earlier literature—LGBTQ or not, American or not. The panel will hope to answer the following questions: Do LGBTQ works seek legitimacy by incorporating ‘the classics?’ Do LGBTQ texts seek to frame or reframe literary or cultural traditions by placing earlier authors or works into both a contemporary and a queer cultural context? How might such texts revise the LGBTQ canon by reworking that canon in new forms? 300 word abstracts by 9/30/2012 to andrew.schopp@ncc.edu
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