[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Women Writing Men since 1900 (6/4/07; 20th-C., 2/21/08-2/23/08)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Women Writing Men since 1900: Is There a Gender in This Text?
CFP: Proposed Panel for the 2008 Louisville Conference on Literature and
Culture since 1900 / Twentieth Century Lit. & Culture
February 21-23 - University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)

Helene Cixous encourages women to "write through their bodies" as a
return to embodiment purloined by male authors. But what happens when
female authors write differently sexed or gendered bodies? Do
representations of othered bodies conform to or challenge stereotypes?
In short, what can we learn from women who write (about) men? The
concerns raised by this topic originate from a broad range of
discourses-queer theory, GLBT studies, feminism, male/masculinity
studies, gender studies, "gendered" authorship and reading, to name
some-and as such, submissions for this panel could investigate such
issues as:

-Female authors since 1900 who employ male narrators
-Female authors who write about maleness or masculinity
-Female authors who challenge masculine stereotypes
-Queer and/or GLBT representations of men and/or masculinity in
female-authored texts
-Black masculinity from the female writer's perspective
-Colonial/post-colonial masculinity
-Readings and misreadings of gender in a female-authored text
-The concept of gendered authorship
-The male body in authorship and/or female-authored texts
-The impact of women writing about men on feminist studies
-The female/male, feminine/masculine dichotomy

A wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches is
encouraged. However, papers which discuss specific authors or texts
within the context of this rather broad topic will be privileged. The
only caveat, specified by the conference, is that the work must have
been written after 1900.

Please send 250-500 word abstracts to lcwilkes at indiana.edu by Monday,
June 4, 2007.

For more information on the 2008 Louisville Conference, please visit
http://www.modernlanguages.louisville.edu/conference.

Lydia Wilkes
Department of English
Indiana University

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