A one day
conference at Newman University, Birmingham, UK. Thursday 17th January 2018.
Author reading and Q&A with Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon (2016)
and Trick to Time (2018).
This one
day conference seeks to examine representations of marriage from the 1970s to
the present across a range of cultural and spatial contexts. The institution of
marriage has changed significantly across this period, starting with the
Matrimonial Clauses Act 1973, and is currently undergoing major shifts with
recent changes in marriage laws, inc. the introduction of civil partnerships
and gay marriage. Marriage is, at its most basic, a legal union of two people
but the social, cultural, religious and, increasingly, political motives and
implications are central to its significance and value. What does it mean then
when marriage ‘goes wrong’? What constitutes a ‘wrong’ marriage? To what extent
might marital ‘wrongs’ function politically? This conference aims to explore
how contemporary literature is presenting and responding to these questions. We
welcome papers from the fields of literature and cultural studies which offer readings
of violations of marriage laws or transgressive marital relations.
Topics for
papers might include, but are not limited to:
- Adultery
- Arranged marriage
- Bigamy/polygamy
- Ceremony
- Crossing boundaries of culture, age and class
- Divorce
- Domestic violence
- Forced marriage
- Gay marriage and civil partnerships
- Interracial marriage
- Marital rape
- Marriage and consummation/non-consummation
- Marriage laws
- Marriage under false pretences
- Murder of spouse (mariticide/uxoricide)
- Popular fiction and marriage: crime, romance, middlebrow
- Religious Law vs National Law
We also
welcome suggestions for panels.
Abstracts
of 250 words and a short biographical note should be submitted to
K.Myler@newman.ac.uk and H.Cousins@newman.ac.uk by Friday 16th November
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