Women and Performance invites submissions for a special issue, "Punk Anteriors: Genealogy, Performance, Theory." They invite critical essays, short texts, book and performance reviews, artwork, and photo essays that examine questions relevant to a critical discussion of the intersection of punk, music, race, gender, and performance. Submission deadline: July 15, 2011.
Call for Papers - Special Issue "Punk Anteriors: Genealogy, Performance, Theory"
Revisions to the phenomenon of punk have been circulating since its
inception. This issue seeks to capture the performance of those revisions,
conducting a genealogical mapping of the punk movement, scenes, music,
ethics, and aesthetics utilizing queer and feminist punk analytics. While some
valuable feminist critiques of punk have surfaced - mainly to lionize the riot
grrrl movement - many uneasy questions around race, nation, and sexuality
remain unarticulated in feminist and gender performance scholarship. The
interdisciplinary articles in this issue will address the performances and
politics of these exclusions.
We are interested in the temporality and spatiality of punk performances
through a collective and archival process. We use the word "anteriors" in the
title of this issue to frame the articles that address these punk spaces and
remnants, plotting what comes before, anterior to, the telling of punk's
narratives in two senses: first, in the temporal sense which interrogates
punk's resistant genealogy; and, second, in the material and spatial sense of
place, bodies, and archives. What can be situated in front of the generic
narratives of punk's beginnings and mainstays as a form of resistance? Where
do articulations of racial formation, gender, nation, and sexuality fit into
generic notions of punk origins, temporalities, and classisms? Can punk
epistemologies be used to critique punk's exclusions?
Possible topics include:
• Race, imperialism, and punk
• Women of color feminism and punk
• Diaspora and punk
• Transnational movements and festivals
• Zines and feminist interventions
• Riot grrrl
• Underground sound and gender
• Punk, history, and ethnic studies
• Aesthetic, performance, and music
• Queer punk and other questions of sexuality in performance
• Disidentifications, performance, and punk outlaws
• Subjugated histories and punk feminism
• Art and new media performance
• Punk responses to theory and punk theories
• Supplemental spaces of punk
Women and Performance invites critical essays, short texts, book and
performance reviews, artwork, and photo essays that examine these or other
questions relevant to a critical discussion of the intersection of punk, music,
race, gender, and performance. Submissions should be 10,000 words or less
in length and adhere to the current Chicago Manual of Style, author-date
format. Questions and abstracts for review are welcome before the final
deadline. Complete essays and texts for consideration must be submitted by
July 15th, 2011. Please send all work to Fiona Ngô and Elizabeth Stinson via
email (MSWord attachment): ngo@illinois.edu and stinson@nyu.edu. Further
submission guidelines may be found at:
http://www.womenandperformance.org/submission.html. Women and
Performance is a peer reviewed journal published by Routledge, Taylor &
Francis.
