[Vwoolf] Reminder--Please Send Your Short Reflections on the Dreadnought Hoax by May 15th

[Danell Jones]

I hope that many of you will be interested in participating in the discussion about the Dreadnought hoax at the upcoming VW Conference. 

I would love to collect your short reflections on the hoax to share before conference discussion! If you can get those to me by May 15th, that would be wonderful. 

Send to: danell at danelljones.com 

Thanks everyone,

Danell



Call for Responses: Dreadnought Hoax Discussion
I am so pleased to announce that “Rethinking the Dreadnought Hoax: A Discussion” has been accepted for the 2021 Virginia Woolf Conference. 
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 danell at danelljones.com by  May 15th.
Before we meet in June, I will email a packet of the reflections to all participants.
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:
1. In the past, the Dreadnought hoax has been considered subversive, pacifist, feminist, anti-imperialist, even anti-racist. Are those understandings still valid?
2. How do we contend with Woolf’s use of blackface? 
3. What does the hoax mean to scholars, students, common readers, artists, writers, and 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?
4. How do we teach, talk about, or otherwise engage the Dreadnought hoax in the era of the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements?
If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me: danell at danelljones.com

Very Short Bibliography

There are many articles, book, podcasts, etc. that talk about the Dreadnought Hoax. Here are just a handful to get started. 
 
deCourcy, Elisa. “The Dreadnought Hoax portrait as an affront to the Edwardian age.” Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 405–24. 

Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. “Bushmen and Blackface: Bloomsbury and ‘Race.’” The South Carolina Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2006, pp. 46–64, 279.

- - -. “Virginia Woolf, Performing Race.” The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Edited by Maggie Humm, Edinburgh UP, 2010, pp. 74–87.

(Gerzina’s research on the history/experience of Black folk in Britain is extensive.)

Johnston, Georgia. “Virginia Woolf ’s Talk on the Dreadnought Hoax.” Woolf Studies
Annual, vol. 15, 2009, 9–45.

Jones, Danell. “The Dreadnought Hoax and the Theatres of War.” Literature 

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