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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

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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






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