CFP: Feminine Writing/Hysterical Grammar

[Jenn Cole]

Dear All,

Please find, enclosed, a link to submit abstracts to the panel “Feminine
Writing/Hysterical Grammar: (Re)Reading Cixous and Clément” at NEMLA 2016
in Hartford, CT (March 2016)

Call for Papers

Cixous and Clément's *A Newly Born Woman*, called a “tarantella of theory”
by Sandra Gilbert, is a text that explores the histories and possibilities
of feminine writing and also: madness, hysteria, sorcery, gender,
bisexuality, the body, vocality, alterity, language, monstrosity,
colonialism, theatre and feminist psychoanalysis. The performative work of
writing is a cauldron of provocations and entanglements with hysteria that
deserve to be revisited in the twenty-first century. This seminar invites
close or comparative readings of *A Newly Born Woman*, especially in
relation to questions such as: In what ways is Cixous and Clément's way of
working “hysterical engagement?” (135) What are the stakes, potentialities
and repercussions of working with the figure of the hysteric as an ideal
embodiment of the feminine? What does *A Newly Born Woman *have to teach us
about the ethical force of hysterical grammar?

To submit an abstract, go to the following link:

https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15608


 Warm regards,


 Jenn Cole

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies; University of Toronto
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