GR Re: ... race relations

[jbor]

It reminded me more of the lynching and castration of that redneck racist
Major Duane Marvy, though I doubt that's quite what the convenors have in
mind either.

best



on 13/7/02 9:15 PM, alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr at
alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr wrote:

> 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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