This project pursues the analysis of the representation of contemporary sexualities in a number of cultural documents from five English-speaking countries with the help of Foucault’s notions of heteronormativity and the punishment of dissident sexualities. We will identify the ways in whichcurrent sexualities lead to alternative, counter-cultural proposals (following the ideas of Haraway and Braidotti on the subject), or else how they are repressed into the abject (in Kristevan works). Our analysis will also attend to overlapping identity configurations, such as race or caste, age, ethnicity and religion, and will attempt to establish, whenever possible, connections between genre and gender and sexualities.
CONFERENCES:
Culture and Power 15: “IDENTITY, MIGRATION AND DIASPORA: NEW SEXUALITIES AND GENDER IDENTITIES” IBACS (Iberian Association of Cultural Studies) and Spanish Ministry of Science Research Project FEM2010-18142 “New Sexualities and Gender Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Cultures”.
English Department, University of Málaga, 18-20 April 2012. www.cultureandpower.org
Organizers: Dra. Silvia Castro Borrego y Dra. María Isabel Romero Ruiz
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects: Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body. Ed. Silvia Pilar Castro Borrego and Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4438-2646-4. [+ information]