Publication Deadline: 2010-09-01 (in 27 days)
Date Submitted: 2010-05-20
Announcement ID: 176324
CFP: Vampire States of America (edited collection): intersectional feminist approaches to recent US cinematic and literary narratives about vampires. Sept 1, 2010.
We invite scholars in queer studies, ethnic studies, women's and gender studies, history, art history, anthropology, sociology, legal studies, literature, film, and cultural studies to contribute to a projected volume that explores the construction of nation through recent U.S. literary, cinematic, and televisual narratives about vampires.
Since Donna Haraway's observation that "vampires are vectors of category transformation in a racialized, historical, national unconscious," attention has increasingly turned to the ways that the vexed racial formations characteristic of the United States have intersected with vampire narratives.
How have American literary and cinematic vampires figured the haunted past of slavery, the near-genocidal conquest of Native American lands, the conflicts over the shifting national border between the US and Mexico, the imperial and neo-imperial conquest of further territories, or the permeable borders of an immigrant nation?
We are interested in work on narratives both mainstream (such as Stephenie Meyer's /Twilight/ series) and marginal (such as Jewelle Gomez's /Gilda Stories/ or Aaron Carr's /Eye Killers/). We solicit essays that put into practice the insights of feminist intersectionality theory by considering relations among sex, gender, race, and class in the context of national identity.
Call for proposals/papers: Vampire States of America: Taking a Bite Out of Intersectionality
Please send a 500-word proposal and a brief CV
as Word.doc attachments by Sept 1, 2010 to
Luz María Gordillo: gordillo@vancouver.wsu.edu
and
Frann Michel: fmichel@willamette.edu
Completed essays will be due by October 15, 2010
Frann Michel
English Department
900 State Steet
Salem, OR 97209
Email: fmichel@willamette.edu
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