Second call for abstracts: Homonormativity, homonationalism and language

[Lucy Jones]

Second call for abstracts:


Homonormativity, homonationalism and language



This panel at the 22nd Lavender Languages and Linguistics conference (American University, Washington D.C, February 13-15 2015) will consider the impact of neoliberal discourses on the construction and representation of LGBT identities and communities. By homonormativity, we refer to Duggan’s (2003) argument that LGBT culture has become assimilationist and no longer rejects or contests dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions. In referring to homonationalism, we invoke Puar’s (2007) claim that the queer body has been largely represented as a white one, leading to the othering of non-white bodies within LGBT culture.



Abstracts for papers which question, critique, offer insight into or explore the impact of homonormativity and/or homonationalism on modern LGBT speakers are welcomed. We would be keen to receive proposals which take a range of linguistic and theoretical approaches to this broad subject.



Please send proposals to Lucy Jones at lucy.jones at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:lucy.jones at nottingham.ac.uk> by Friday 7th November 2014. Please note the change of email address from the first CFP sent to this list in June.


For more information about the Lavender Languages conference, please visit:

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Dr Lucy Jones
Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics
School of English
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK

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