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robin_anne_reid) wrote2007-09-06 01:42 pm
robin_anne_reid) wrote2007-09-06 01:42 pm
CFP: Updated, co-editor, Queering the Fantastic
Update: Queering the Fantastic
Edited by Robin Anne Reid and Jes Battis (added as co-editor)
What is queer about the fantastic, and what is fantastic about queerness? This volume will address all the fantastic in all media, focusing particularly on queer uses, adaptations, and reformulations. Since its definition as “a hesitation between genres” by Tzvetan Todorov in the 1970s, the fantastic has often been compared to Freud’s ‘uncanny,’ or to the marvelous realms of the picaresque, the fairy-tale, and the medieval romance. But the fantastic is not precisely any of these things, and, with this volume, we are interested in linking it to the ambivalent and charged position of ‘queer’ as a sexuality, a mode of life, a genre of literature, and even a type of impossibility.
We are seeking scholarly essays (20 pgs max) that explore the links between the fantastic and queer studies. We would like to see work on queer fantasy writers, queer adaptations and manipulations of the fantastic, writers whose work has a ‘queer bent’ of some kind, or theoretical treatments of gay and lesbian studies, or gender studies, including asexuality, bisexuality, transexuality, and transgender.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, any of the following sub-genres and media:
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative fiction, hybrid and interstitial arts, magical realism, post-colonial fantasy.
Films, television shows, graphic novels, anime, and manga.
Fanfiction, slash fiction, filk, vids, machinima, fan cultures.
RPGs and gaming-inspired series, as well as PC and console video games and online games.
Children’s and YA fantasy-fiction with gay and lesbian themes (book or cartoons)
Queering and re-analyzing canonical creators of the fantastic, in any media and sub-genre, including the epic.
Readings of fantastic texts from languages and cultures outside the U.S. and the U.K.
Readings of interdisciplinary queer writers (and critics) who deal with unclassifiable works.
Surveys and reinterpretations of critics and earlier scholarship on the fantastic.
Creative pieces that are critical and scholarly in nature
Email abstracts (1000 word max plus Working Bibliography) to:
Professor Robin Anne Reid (Robin_Reid_AT_tamu-commerce.edu) AND Professor Jes Battis (jbattis_AT_gmail.com). Please include a recent CV and short bio.
Deadline for abstracts is Oct 30, 2007. All contributors will be notified by early November.
Robin Anne Reid is currently professor of creative writing and critical theory at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has authored two books for Greenwood's Critical Companions Series (on Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury), and is currently editing an encyclopedia on women in science fiction and fantasy, also for Greenwood. She has published essays on feminist science fiction, queer approaches to fan studies, and Peter Jackson's film of Tolkien's novel. Her poetry has been published in a variety of small magazines and online.
Jes Battis is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the City University of New York in Manhattan, and teaches as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at CUNY-Hunter College. He has authored two scholarly books on fantasy and media: “Investigating Farscape: Uncharted Territories of Sex and Science Fiction,” (Palgrave, 2007) and “Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” (McFarland, 2005). He also has a fantasy novel, “Night Child,” forthcoming from Penguin USA/Ace in spring of 2008.
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