Call For Papers: "Gothic Castles, Colonial Gazes: American Cinema and =
the British Literary Tradition," a panel at the New York College English =
Association, Fall 1999 Conference, "Bridges and Borders in Literature =
and Film" Friday, October 8, and Saturday, October 9, 1999, at Canisius =
College, Buffalo, New York. Panel acceptance pending.
Since Gilbert and Guber=92s 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=92s sexuality =
poses to the patriarchal distribution of wealth and power. But the =
=93female gothic,=94 however itself =93exotic=94 and =93foreign,=94 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, =93haunts,=94 and lands of non-Western =
=93others=94=97 whether they be Native-American, Caribbean, African, =
Asian, Latino, or even Jewish. In what ways has 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, =93dysfunctional=94 family, and =
the other Other of the racially marked family?
Please send or e-mail paper proposals (by June 15, 1999)to:
Abigail Lynn Coykendall
306 Clemens Hall, English Department
State University of New York at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14260
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E-mail: alc8@acsu.buffalo.edu
Homepage: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~alc8
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