Reading Group: "A very queer place dis New Orleans": Sexual Dissidence and Antebellum Louisiana's Multilingual Fictions
16:30-18:00 - Saturday, 2 December 2023
Forms part of BrANCA's Sixth Biennial Symposium to be held at the University of Bristol and online
Reading:
Selected chapters from Ludwig von Reizenstein's Mysteries of New Orleans alongside selected additional texts
Combining readings of under-researched nineteenth century fiction and historical documents from the ‘Deep South’, this reading group co-chaired by Mara Curechian (University of St. Andrews) and Sammy Moriarty (King's College London) hopes to create a space in which to not only reconsider and recover queer life in the South both before and after the Civil War, but also to question what such an endeavour might reveal about our understandings of queerness, or indeed southernness itself. This session's readings include selected chapters from Ludwig von Reizenstein’s Mysteries of New Orleans, with an appended article by Lauren Heinz to supplement the discussion, which will centre on the troubled and troubling borders of sex, gender, and race that the serialised German-language novel pushes to darkly playful limits.
Please email the organisers at [email protected] for circulation of readings in advance, or if you have any questions.
16:30-18:00 - Saturday, 2 December 2023
Forms part of BrANCA's Sixth Biennial Symposium to be held at the University of Bristol and online
Reading:
Selected chapters from Ludwig von Reizenstein's Mysteries of New Orleans alongside selected additional texts
Combining readings of under-researched nineteenth century fiction and historical documents from the ‘Deep South’, this reading group co-chaired by Mara Curechian (University of St. Andrews) and Sammy Moriarty (King's College London) hopes to create a space in which to not only reconsider and recover queer life in the South both before and after the Civil War, but also to question what such an endeavour might reveal about our understandings of queerness, or indeed southernness itself. This session's readings include selected chapters from Ludwig von Reizenstein’s Mysteries of New Orleans, with an appended article by Lauren Heinz to supplement the discussion, which will centre on the troubled and troubling borders of sex, gender, and race that the serialised German-language novel pushes to darkly playful limits.
Please email the organisers at [email protected] for circulation of readings in advance, or if you have any questions.