The Homoerotics of Lynching (2/1/03; SCMLA, 10/30/03-11/1/03)

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 to ntipton@memphis.edu