Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:36:26 -0700 (PDT) From: J Poxon <poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu> Subject: CFP: Gothic Castles, Colonial Gazes (9/15; NEMLA, 4/7-4/8) (fwd) FYI... And please, respond to the address given within the CFP, not to me or to this list. Thanks. Judith Poxon co-moderator, french-feminism poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:07:32 -0400 From: Abby Coykendall <alc8-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu> Subject: CFP: Gothic Castles, Colonial Gazes (9/15; NEMLA, 4/7-4/8) CALL FOR PAPERS for the Northeast Modern Language Association convention in Buffalo, NY April 7-8, 2000. Session Title: "Gothic Castles, Colonial Gazes: American Cinema and the British Literary Tradition" Since Gilbert and Guber's 1979 Madwoman in the Attic, the gothic castle has become a premier site to renegotiate the socio-political positions of those historically left outside the legitimate exchanges, contracts, and legacies of the (ostensibly) homosocial body politic. Insofar, these negotiations have largely focused on the position of women, especially the potential disturbance that women's sexuality poses to the patriarchal distribution of wealth and power. But the "female gothic," however itself "exotic" and "foreign," also has its own doubles. From the _Mysteries of Udolpho_ and _Jane Eyre_ to _The Big Sleep_, _Chinatown_, and _Poltergeist_, this haunted, gothic mansion of wealthy elites has had important yet nevertheless extremely repressed connections to the homes, "haunts," and lands of non-Western "others" whether they be Native-American, Caribbean, African, Asian, Latino, or even Jewish. In what ways have twentieth-century American cinema and literature inherited the colonial legacy of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century British novel? How do gothic castles like those in _Bladerunner_ or _The Shining_ mark this inheritance? In what ways are feminine sexuality, homoeroticism, and ethnicity employed to reconstruct (and obscure) the demands of the traditional, bourgeois nuclear family, the gothic, "dysfunctional" family, and the other Other of the racially marked family? Please send, fax, or e-mail paper proposals (by 9/15/99) to: Abigail Lynn Coykendall 306 Clemens Hall, English Department State University of New York at Buffalo Amherst, NY 14260 E-mail: alc8-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu Fax: (716) 645-5980 --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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