i got this in the mail- another view on hm, race relations

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

it's a call for papers but it kind of makes me think of what the
relation between weissmann and enzian made me think about.

greg

CALL FOR PAPERS

For a proposed Special Session at SCMLA '03 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, I 
am seeking papers that explore the intersection of homoeroticism and 
lynching.  I am particularly interested in approaches that deal with 
castration and the attendant phallic relations occurring between the 
white lyncher and the (ostensibly) black lynching victim, or what Robyn 
Wiegman calls "the image of white men embracing -- with hate, fear, and 
a chilling form of empowered delight -- the same penis they were so 
over-determinedly driven to destroy."  Other approaches, however, are 
welcome and can explore either fictional lynchings or non-fictional 
lynching "narratives" such as those contained in _Without Lynching._

250-word abstracts, along with CV, should be surface-mailed no later 
than February 1, 2003, to:

Nathan G. Tipton
Department of English
The University of Memphis
82 Stonewall Street
Memphis, Tennessee  38104-2456

or emailed as plain text or MS Word attachment to ntipton at memphis.edu

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