[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: ELN "Queer Space" (4/1/07; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

New Deadline For Submissions: April 1, 2007

Call for Papers: ELN 45.2, Fall/Winter 2007, "Queer Space"

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 submissions is April 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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