Doing Queer Literature in a Global Perspective
Doing Queer Literature in a Global Perspective
Organised by Michail Leivadiotis, Samira Spatzek, Nina Tolksdorf, Research Area 1: "Competing Communities".
The conference seeks to discuss the role of literature in the construction of queer communities. What is the significance and the effect of shared texts or imagery in the process of affiliation or disaffiliation, inclusion or exclusion that define queer belonging and kinship? What do literary references, canons, iconic artworks, materialities, landmarks or tunes mean in this process?
Queer community building processes stimulate connectivity that transcends national, cultural, linguistic, spatial and temporal limits. The competitive dynamics of communities, non-normative temporalities, gender-centered performativities and materialities are seen as volatile aspects of transliterary, transcultural and transtemporal relationalities. Resistance to periodisation or linear futurity, as well as resistance to fixed ontologies of identity allow a discursive, literary and cultural negotiation of the complex links between the dynamics of competing sexualities, validity aspirations, intermedial flexibility and digital re-invention of connectivity.
The conference aspires to understand constructed or embodied perceptions of belonging and queer in-betweenness (spatial, temporal, narratological, representational and performative). Furthermore, it aims to create a theoretical space of transnational and interdisciplinary scope for the discussion of literary and artistic pronunciations that challenge essentialism and heteronormativity.
Furher Information
Samira Spatzek: samira.spatzek@fu-berlin.de. Please register by 24 September, 2023 via email.