Performing Gender and Sexuality in Francophone Literature and Cinema
March 17-20, 2016 - Hartford, CT (NeMLA Annual Convention)
This panel seeks papers that consider the many ways in which contemporary Francophone authors and filmmakers represent the performance of gender and/or sexuality within their work. How do these texts reveal, challenge, and resist dominant domestic and hexagonal conceptualizations of either element or both? For the purposes of this panel, and given the numerous possible conceptualizations of performance, we seek to examine the various and varied ways performance is employed as an analytic. As such, performance dialogues with textual production, modes of reading, social and cultural construction, discourses of power, and so on. Furthermore, we are particularly interested in papers that examine the ways in which these representations of gender and sexuality intersect with related questions of ethnicity and social class, as well as the ways in which these intersections map onto a subject's physical body. Ultimately, the body emerges at the intersection of performativity and the reality of lived experience, thereby producing hitherto unforeseen new realities, new possibilities within Francophone artistic and cultural production.
For consideration, please send 250-300-word proposals in English or French, along with a brief bio and contact information, to Jennifer Misran and Ryan Schroth by September 30th, 2015 using the following link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15835