Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts

deadline for submissions: 
June 30, 2025
full name / name of organization: 
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23, 2025
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Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Desire in Litererature and the Visual Arts

This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing? 

 

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Please contact Diana Shaffer: diana.shaffer@tx.rr.com with any questions.