CFP: Law and the Gothic (1/18/02; 11/14-17/02)
Proposed panel for the American Studies Association conference,
Houston, November 2002
Seeking papers on any aspect of the relationship
between law and the gothic. For example, How does the
gothic concern with the irrational and mysterious or the
return of the repressed disrupt the legal production and
maintenance of coherent order and categories of identity?
On the other hand, do gothic representations enable such
legal productions? How do aspects of juridical power, such
as the legal production of racialized and gendered subjects, or
legally legitimated violence, or incarceration or other
penalogical practices, take gothic forms or have gothic
effects? What do such relationships between gothic
and legal discourse mean for concepts of an American gothic
tradition? And what do they mean for understanding the
conflicting strategies and technologies of state power, and
the formations of identity that are effects of that power?
Email abstracts or inquiries to:
or send to
Jeanne Elders DeWaard
2412 Inverness Rd. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
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