CfP Queer Eye: Black German Visions

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*Call for Papers*

*45th Annual Conference of the Coalition of Women in German Conference*

*October 15-18, 2020 (Sewanee, TN, Sewanee-University of the South) *



*Queer Eye: Black German Visions*



*Panel Co-Coordinators:*

Tiffany Florvil, University of New Mexico

Vanessa Plumly, Lawrence University

Kevina King, University of Massachusetts, Amherst



This panel explores the Black German tradition of queering and querying the
gaze, knowledge, and ontologies, by examining past, present, and future
visions of collective and individual identity. Thus, what we mean by queer
eye could also be understood as a queer =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=9D. The queer eye =
attends to the
multiple focal points of Black German Studies, especially its overlapping
and intersecting lenses. Black German ontologies and subjectivities return
the critical gaze back onto the exclusionary, normative constructs that
(re)produce and mark their non-being and non-belonging and undermine Black
fungibility. But they equally envision Black Germans as capable of
operating, producing, and being outside of such epistemological
paradigms. As Fatima El-Tayeb=E2=80=99s *European Others: Queering Ethnicit=
y in
Postnational Europe* emphasizes the explicit need to queer national
contexts, she points to Black German agents who complicate notions of
belonging through queer time, space, performance, and self-making.
Moreover, in the context of the Black German women=E2=80=99s movement Peggy=
 Piesche
and Tiffany Florvil have highlighted the significance of queer
positionalities within the community as well as its =E2=80=9Cqueered=E2=80=
=9D publications
from *Farbe bekennen* to *afro look *that incorporate various modes of
story-telling and embody the spacetime (Wright) dimension of their archive,
content, and meaning. In their cultural productions, Black Germans
continuously blur the boundaries of genre and form by producing aesthetics
beyond the constraints of traditional Western norms of categorization and
bending and twisting frames, molding them anew to better serve their
complex narratives and lives.



Papers in this panel will therefore address the queerness and queering of
Black German visions. By tackling literary, filmic, musical, theoretical,
autobiographical, poetic, philosophical and/or dramatic forms of Black
German aesthetic and political expression, the papers will demonstrate how
diasporic agents produced new ways of seeing, knowing, feeling, and
existing, instantiating and reimagining the Black German Diaspora in the
process.



We find this panel to be particularly relevant given the invitation
extended to Sheri Hagen for WiG 2020 and her own body of work.



Please send inquiries and proposals of 200-300 words to all organizers by
February 15, 2020: Tiffany Florvil ([email protected]), Vanessa Plumly (
[email protected]), and Kevina King ([email protected]).



Panel participants must be WiG members at the time of the conference.

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Vanessa Plumly, PhD
Assistant Professor of German
Ethnic Studies Affiliate
Lawrence University
ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow
she/her/hers
[email protected]
[email protected]

Co-chair Black Diaspora Studies Network, GSA
H-Net Black Europe, Review Editor
Series Co-Editor "Imagining Black Europe" Peter Lang Press

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