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Sex Shocks Across Borders: Gendering Mobility and Monstrosity Seminar Organizer(s): * Mattia Marino (Bangor University), Christopher Larkosh (University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth) The racialization and sensationalization of gender and sexuality have a long history, one constantly retold both in and through various kinds of texts and other materials. At present, moreover, a wide range of heteronormative cultural institutions continue to uphold discursive binaries, by characterizing not only gender and sexual diversity, but also ‘race’ and socioeconomic class, as shocking and/or monstrous. This seminar will allow participants to bring together, discuss and contribute to the latest research on textual monstrosity and gendered mobility in relation to transnational flows. The seminar welcomes innovative comparative analyses of gendered mobility and monstrosity across multiple borders: national/linguistic, disciplinary (literary, feminist, queer, medical, postcolonial, psychoanalytic studies, ecocriticism, animal studies), and/or textual (archives, literary texts, theory, visual culture). Comparative contributions may address such subjects as: migration and gender/sexuality; shock and sexual experiences on or across multiple borders; gender and sexual monsters as sites of racialized stigmatization; discourses on women represented as monstrous, whether in Western or non-Western communities; rape and sexual abuse of men and women in and out of war; the transgressive aesthetics of ugliness with its particular sexual and ethnic undertones; the shifting boundaries of sexual intersubjectivity, etc. How are gender and ethnic binaries either upheld or challenged through the recurrent tropes of monstrosity? What envisioning of gendered mobility may take shape by comparing monstrous and shocking depictions of sex and gender across any number of unstable borders? This seminar is sponsored by the Comparative Gender Studies Committee, chaired by Professor William Spurlin. SEMINAR KEYWORDS: trauma; mobility; monstrosity; ethnicity; gender; sexuality; transnationalism; ugliness It is not necessary to be a member of ACLA in order to submit a seminar or paper proposal. However, all presenters and seminar leaders who participate at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Toronto must be: * registered for the conference AND * current members of the ACLA for 2013 in order to participate. Read our submission guidelines for papers and seminars here<http://acla.org/annualmeetingguidelines.html>: http://acla.org/annualmeetingguidelines.html (Submit a Paper Proposal<http://acla.org/submit/index.php>) – The Deadline of November 1st, 2012 at midnight (Pacific Standard Time) has been extended to the 15th of November, 2012 at midnight (Pacific Standard Time). http://acla.org/submit/index.php ~ m.marino@bangor.ac.uk<mailto:m.marino@bangor.ac.uk> ~
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