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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