CFP: Race & Psychoanalysis (9/15; NEMLA, 4/7-4/8)

From: Susan B Feldman (sbf@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 07 1999 - 18:10:54 EDT


                       
                      Call For Papers
            
     "RACIAL SUBJECTS & THE SUBJECT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS"
                         
                  Northeast MLA Conference
                      Buffalo, New York
                       April 7-8, 2000

This panel seeks papers exploring the limits and possibilities
psychoanalysis provides for theorizing racial subjectivity, and the
relationship between racial and sexual difference. Possible
themes might include:
       -- The Racial Boundaries of Psychoanalysis:
          Is the psychoanalytic subject implicitly white
          How did turn-of-the-century racial theories influence
             the development of certain psychoanalytic concepts
       -- The value of specific psychoanalytic concepts -- e.g.,
             jouissance, the gaze, etc. -- for theorizing race and racism
       -- Does psychoanalytic criticism entail conscription to
             dominant cultural discourses
       -- The relationship between race and femininity

Please send inquiries and/or detailed 1-2 page abstracts by September 15
to:
          Susan Feldman
          87 E. Morris Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. 14214
          sbf@acsu.buffalo.edu
             
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