[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Queer Space (3/1/07; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

   "Queer Space"  (3/1/07: ELN Special Issue)

A respected forum since 1962 for new work in English literary studies,
ELN (English Language Notes) has undergone a change in editorship and an
extensive makeover as a biannual journal devoted exclusively to special
topics in all fields of literary and cultural studies. The new ELN is
particularly determined to revive and reenergize its traditional
commitment to featuring shorter notes, often no more than 3-4 pages in
print, an attribute of the journal that will provide a unique forum for
cutting-edge scholarly debate and exchange in the humanities.

Volume 45.2  of the new ELN (Fall/Winter 2007) seeks to make a radical
intervention in the discourses of both spatiality and sexuality
studies. Contributors will explore gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer
definitions of space not only in relation to the built environment but
in response to a range of boundaries and sites. We invite analyses of
conceptual, geographical, discursive, virtual, and metaphoric
understandings of queer space, welcoming in particular interdisciplinary
essays that move beyond extant work on the topic that deals primarily
with  male experience. Contributors may consider, for example, any of
the following: how homosexual desire inverts or complicates the logic of
inside/outside; how representations of queer space intercede in the
relations between visibility and power; how erotic connections construct
a queer counter-public; how spaces such as streets, sex clubs, tearooms,
and parks complicate notions of public and private; how the meaning of
interior design and domestic space shifts when considered in relation to
the ideologies and institutions of sexuality; how intimate physical
contact with geographical spaces offers refuge from the perceived
tyranny of heterosexuality; and how the mapping of a gay, lesbian, or
bisexual subculture onto local, national, and international communities
  potentially reframes the categories of sex, gender, sexuality,
nationality, and race.

This ELN issue welcomes considerations of queer space that provide more
than strictly sexual definitions of the term, and move beyond arguments
that disclaim "queer" either as excessively capacious or exclusionary
(as it seeks to embrace readings of the ways women and lesbians occupy
these spaces). By broadening the conceptual framework of spatiality and
sexuality studies beyond the parameters that typically have defined it
for the past decade, we aim to examine how the obsessions, anxieties,
and taboos that characterize what we might call amoral sensual spaces
come to be linked with gay and lesbian sensibilities.

The editors solicit original work that seeks to challenge
heteronormative understandings of "space" while problematizing the term
"queer." Position papers, notes, and essays of no longer than 20
manuscript pages are invited on this subject from scholars in all fields
of literary and cultural studies; the editors would be delighted to
consider together two or more related contributions engaging one
another on particular themes to be published as topical clusters.
Book reviews on queer space topics are also welcome.

Please send contributions and/or proposals to The Editors, English
Language Notes, University of Colorado at Boulder, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO
80309-0226, USA. Deadline for final submissions is March 1, 2007.
Specific inquires regarding volume 45.2 may be directed to the issue
editor, Jane Garrity, via e-mail garrity at buffmail.Colorado.EDU.

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