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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:none;padding:0in'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>Call for Responses: <i>Dreadnought </i>Hoax Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>I am so pleased to announce that “Rethinking the Dreadnought Hoax: A Discussion” has been accepted for the 2021 Virginia Woolf Conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>To lay a foundation for the conversation, I would like to invite anyone who wants to participate to share a short (250-500 word) reflection on the hoax in advance of the conference. Please send it to me, Danell Jones, at <a href="mailto:danell@danelljones.com">danell@danelljones.com</a> by <b>May 15<sup>th</sup></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>Before we meet in June, I will email a packet of the reflections to all participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>The goal of the conversation is to think about the ways we understand the hoax, teach it, use it in art, biography or performances. Here are some critical questions we might ponder:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='line-height:106%'> In the past, the <i>Dreadnought </i>hoax has been considered subversive, pacifist, feminist, anti-imperialist, even anti-racist. Are those understandings still valid?<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='line-height:106%'>How do we contend with Woolf’s use of blackface? <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='line-height:106%'>What does the hoax mean to scholars, students, common readers, artists, writers, and/or performers today? For example, what do student reactions reveal? How do performances like Kabe Wilson’s “The Dreadlock Hoax” invite us to rethink Woolf’s act and what it means?<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='line-height:106%'>How do we teach, talk about, or otherwise engage the <i>Dreadnought </i>hoax in the era of the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me: <a href="mailto:danell@danelljones.com">danell@danelljones.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:black'>Very Short Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:black'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:black'>There are many articles, book, podcasts, etc. that talk about the <i>Dreadnought </i>Hoax. Here are just a handful to get started. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='color:#333333;background:white'>deCourcy, Elisa. “The <i>Dreadnought</i></span> Hoax portrait as an affront to the Edwardian age.” <i>Early Popular Visual Culture, </i>vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 405–24. <br><br>Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. “Bushmen and Blackface: Bloomsbury and ‘Race.’” <i>The South Carolina Review</i>, vol. 38, no. 2, 2006, pp. 46–64, 279.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>- - -. “Virginia Woolf, Performing Race.” <i>The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts</i>, Edited by Maggie Humm, Edinburgh UP, 2010, pp. 74–87.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>(Gerzina’s research on the history/experience of Black folk in Britain is extensive.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Johnston, Georgia. “Virginia Woolf ’s Talk on the Dreadnought Hoax.” <i>Woolf Studies</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i>Annual</i>, vol. 15, 2009, <span style='color:#343332;letter-spacing:-.25pt;background:white'>9–45</span>.<br><br><span style='color:#333333;background:white'>Jones, Danell. “The Dreadnought Hoax and the Theatres of War.” </span><i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Literature & History</span></i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>, vol.</span> 22, no. 1, 2013, pp. 80–94.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Jean E. Kennard, “Power and Sexual Ambiguity: The <i>Dreadnought </i>Hoax, <i>The Voyage Out, Mrs. Dalloway, </i>and <i>Orlando.</i>” <i>Journal of Modern Literature</i>, 20: 2 (Winter 1996), 149-164. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Stansky, Peter. “The <i>Dreadnought </i>Hoax.” <i>On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World</i>, 1996, Harvard UP, pp. 17–46.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Wilson,<span style='color:black;background:white'> Kabe. “The Dreadlock Hoax.”</span><i>Studies in the Maternal</i>, vol. 6, no. 1, 2014. DOI:<span style='color:black;background:white'> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.16995/sim.15__;!!KGKeukY!gTZct0JBtXHPjru9QyUsMVstrGfPWfIiJla5dHLOc0u78fauczU83n3qqECNZKaSm_s$">10.16995/sim.15</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='color:#1E1D1D;background:white'>Young, Kevin. “The Time Virginia Woolf Wore Blackface.”</span> <i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>The New Yorker</span></i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>, 27 Oct 2017.<i> </i></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fwww.newyorker.com*2Fbooks*2Fpage-turner*2Fthe-time-virginia-woolf-wore-blackface&data=04*7C01*7CBenjamin.Hagen*40usd.edu*7C90f7705c7d44469dec0908d8eaeb38f2*7C9c36a7d0bf7b49919b78be91a52f0226*7C0*7C0*7C637517643286670733*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C1000&sdata=Mv*2FN4mwrDFu*2B9jqlyX1rVg1KkVsWI1NOsj*2B1IbsaI7s*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!KGKeukY!gTZct0JBtXHPjru9QyUsMVstrGfPWfIiJla5dHLOc0u78fauczU83n3qqECNVGkwRNg$"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-time-virginia-woolf-wore-blackface</span></a><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Woolf, Virginia. “The <i>Dreadnought </i>Hoax Talk.” <i>The Platform of Time: Memoirs of</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i>Family and Friends</i>, edited with an introduction by S. 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