Please join us at our next Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium of the semester, Monday, October 21, 5:30-7:00 PM, in WLH 309 (100 Wall St.).
We will hear from the following presenters, followed by Q&A:
Xavier Lee (Comparative Literature)
Perverted Heterosexualities: Fanon and Cleaver on Sex and Racism
In this paper, I provide a reading of Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks in order to illuminate how both authors explore the role of racism and colonialism in “perverting” the allegedly normative actualization of heterosexual, homoracial and patriarchal relationships.
Colton Valentine (English)
Inversion À Rebours: Seeking Subjecthood in the Fin-de-Siècle Novel
In 1889, Émile Zola received a letter from a self-professed “invert.” Previous scholarship focuses on its publication by sexologist Dr. Saint-Paul; I foreground the text itself. I analyse its claim for representation in Les Rougon-Macquart and its class politics through a counterfactual: Why not identify with Joris-Karl Huysmans’s aristocratic dandy?
The WGSS Colloquium aims to provide graduate students interested in issues of gender and sexuality with an opportunity to share their work and to meet other graduate students who share those interests in an interdisciplinary environment. All are welcome; please spread the word. A light dinner and wine will be served.
Feel free to contact Jacinda (jacinda.tran@yale.edu) with any questions or concerns.
Best wishes,
Patricia Ekpo & Jacinda Tran