CFP - Here There be Monsters

[Wes Pearce]

Apologies for Cross postings
Here There be Monsters: Uncanny Performance, Subversive Hauntings,
Transgressive Horror and Canadian Gothic
			   “In Canada, Gothic is almost the norm”1
The panel Here There be Monsters: Uncanny Performance, Subversive
Hauntings, Transgressive Horror and Canadian Gothic invites interested
participants to investigate dramatic and performed/performative aspects
of gothic as expressed through multiple positions within the Canadian
experience.  Margaret Atwood, Justin Edwards and Cynthia Sugars are
among numerous artists and scholars that have situated gothicness as
fundamental to Canadian literature, and by extension the “Canadian
experience”.  
Gothic explores in-between spaces, the borderless terrain “between the
extremities of the self and the Other, the sublime and the abject, the
real and the virtual”2.  Canadian gothic occupies a liminal space, a
nervous subtext as it were, in the imagination of artists and
spectators. These are spaces haunted by colonial ghosts of the past,  
spaces troubled by the instabilities of identity, spaces filled with
dark wilderness (both natural and urban).  In short, this is a
borderless, ambiguous and anxious space – one that threatens to
spontaneously collapse into a terrifying, apocalyptic void.
This panel aims to interrogate this space and asks participants to
explore any aspect of the gothic:
-practices of re-reading ‘gothic’ into iconic texts and/or performances

-how queer gothic, northern gothic, prairie gothic, urban gothic [et.]
interupts the notion of Canadian Gothic
- visualizing/realizing gothic in production 
			   -how does the transgressive nature of gothic
further problematize Canadian realism
			   -post-colonial gothic as a meta-narrative in
Canadian gothic drama 
The panel welcomes presentations that are interdisciplinary in various
ways of approaching the gothic - film theory, literary criticism,
performance studies, art history, Freudian analysis; theories of drama
are just some of the possibilities.
 The deadline to receive proposals (250 words) is December 9, 2013. 
Please send your inquires and proposals for 20 minute papers to
wes.pearce at uregina.ca.
All accepted presenters and participants are required to join
CATR/ACRT.  For more information on CATR and to join or renew your
membership please visit http://catracrt.ca/
1 Judie Newman. “Postcolonial Gothic: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the
Sobhraj Case” Modern Fiction Studies 40.1 (Spring 1994): 85.
							  2 Justin D.
Edwards. Gothic Canada (Edmonton, University of Alberta Press 2005):
xv.
 


Wes D. Pearce
Associate Dean (Undergraduate)  
Faculty of Fine Arts 
University of Regina
S4S 0A2
306 585 5571
@wesdpearce
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