[ecrea] CFP: International Gothic in the Neo-Liberal Age

CFP: International Gothic in the Neo-Liberal Age (a collection for major academic publisher)

Edited by Linnie Blake&  Agniezska Soltysik Monnet

The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we know it: the fall of the communist bloc, the revolution in information and communication technologies, the emergence of biotechnologies, the proliferation of transnational corporations and, since 2001, the US-led ‘War on Terror.’  Each is itself underscored by the rise to global predominance of economic neo-liberalism.
The proposed collection seeks to trace the ways in which Gothic texts have both represented and interrogated the global changes wrought by neo-liberal economics since the 1980s.  We welcome papers that address themselves to:

•	Literature
•	Film&  Television
•	Visual Cultures
•	Gaming
•	Music
•	Fan Cultures.

Topics may include:

•	The monster and neo-liberal subjectivity: the zombie, ghost, vampire, werewolf, serial killer etc
•	The human: the neo-liberal body, the impact of biomedical science, the ethics of healthcare
•	The natural: our impact on the planet and the planet’s response; fears of eco-apocalypse
•	Neo-liberal selfhood: gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, class
•	Histories: of the gothic, gothic historiographies of the present and the future
•	The socius: population and migration, nationhood, the mass v the elite
•	The city: the new gothic metropolis, Green Zone/Red Zone, the refugee camp, the shanty town
•	War: the military-industrial complex, cyber-war, bio-war, the terrorist, the terrorist state
•	The internet&  neo-liberal gothic culture; trans-national communications; fan cultures; online gothic gaming
•	The gothic dimensions of the shock doctrine

Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent (toL.blake /at/ mmu.ac.uk)  (anda.soltysikmonnet /at/ unil.ch)  by 31 January 2014.


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