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Queer Relations:
Revising the Victorian Family
Proposal deadline: 1 April 2013
Dr Duc Dau, University of Western Australia duc.dau@uwa.edu.au
Dr Shale
Preston, Macquarie University
We invite contributions for an upcoming volume of essays
which examine the Victorian family through a queer lens.
The Victorian family can be taken to mean the
nineteenth-century nuclear or extended family, or the family of texts
associated with the Victorian period (e.g. nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian
texts). We are looking for exciting interrogations into the discourse of
the Victorian family. These interrogations can focus on untraditional
familial arrangements, non-normative relationships, polyamorous attachments,
queer families in disparate communities/locations (e.g. circuses, theaters,
brothels, homes for fallen women, monasteries, convents, hospitals, schools,
ships, military units, thieving fraternities), homosexual/homosocial utopias,
erotic fantasy worlds (e.g. fairy, goblin), etc.
Alternatively, the interrogations can examine queer 20th and
21st century texts/domains/mediums that allude to or mash-up the Victorian
family of texts (canonical or otherwise) or seek to revise traditional notions
of the Victorian family. Focus areas can include but are not limited to
the novel, poetry, film, television, theater, auto/biography, periodicals, the
internet, steampunk etc.
Please send 300 word proposals and a two-page CV to the
editors Dr Duc Dau at duc.dau@uwa.edu.au and
Dr Shale Preston at shale.preston@mq.edu.au by 1 April 2013. Completed chapters of 6,000 - 8,000 words will be due by 1
February 2014.
