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II Congresso Internacional da ABRAPUI(Queer Theory: An Introduction. New York: NY University Press,1996). Considered as a “category in the making”, Queer Theoryhas broadened the study of sexual desire narratives, representation,and identities beyond same-sex configurations, extending itsscope to different kinds of discourse and experiences. By presentingitself as a zone of possibilities, QT resists abandoning itsindeterminacy and flexibility of definition, so as to preserve themobility of its subject of study and the openness of its approach.Teaching experiences in the UK and the US involving readingsand classroom discussions of materials with a Queer Theorybackground will also be presented for discussion.The Female Body in Shakespeare’s The Tempestand Cesaire’s A Tempest.Profa. Dra. Brenda Flanagan (Davidson College)In his play, A Tempest, Aime Cesaire employs a number oftropes peculiar to African and African American history and cultureto contest Shakespeare’s implicit notion that European colonizationwas necessary to civilize “the native”. We’ll look at the specificsof Cesaire’s argument with its relationship between history andculture, as it seeks to define civilization as blackness in humanform.African American Satire: Alice Childress and LangstoneHughesProf. Dr. Joseph Skerrett, Jr (University of MassachusettsAmherst)I propose a seminar of two sessions on the topic African AmericanSatire, with a focus on short pieces by Alice Childress and LangstonHughes. After some definitions of satire and reminders of satirictraditions stemming from Horace and Juvenal, I will presentsome examples of pre-Emancipation and Reconstruction era satiricalworks in the oral tradition of African Americans, including animalfables and folk rhymes or raps like “Shine and the Titanic,” todemonstrate the pre-generic impulse to satirize. We will thenlook at three or so excerpts apiece from Alice Childress’s monologscollected in Like One of the Family and Langston Hughes’s Jesse63