ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

The papers gathered in this seminar explore various aspects of sexual representation and, in particular, of the permeability between gender boundaries, either in the name of aesthetics (Pei-jing Li and Maria Euchner) or politics (Erin Schlumpf and Louisa Matmati). The participants in this seminar raise in novel fashion issues about gender, moral aesthetics, and political identity in transcultural communities.

Saturday, March 25th

Pei-jing Li, Independent Scholar
“The Aesthetics of Exile: The Diasporic Wo/man in the Poetry of Ovid and Qu Yuan”
Maria Euchner, University of Toronto
“Schweig und Tanze: Hugo von Hoffmanstahl’s Elektra as Choreographer of Her Own Ars Oblivionalis”
Erin Schlumpf, Harvard University
“Cartographies of Incarceration: Mapping and Exploding Confines in Luis Buňuel’s Cet obscur objet de désir”
Louisa Matmati, University of Kansas
“Identity and Language in the Fiction of Assia Djebar and Toni Morrison”
Marie-Rose Logan, Soka University of America
“Postmodernism and the Classical World: Pascal Quignard’s Prose Poem ‘Sarx’”