Essays are requested for an edited volume that explores notions of the abject and abjection in relation to the boundaries between the comic, the everyday, and the political.
This volume will consider topics that are both contemporary and historical, grounded in material objects and theoretically inclined. The common thread that will join them is an interest in examining the abject as a means of critique and resistance
Possible approaches to the topic may include:
- Abjection, gender, and psychoanalysis
- Abjection and semiotic resistance
- Abjection beyond Kristeva
- Abjection beyond psychoanalysis
- A genealogy of abjection
- Abjection and Race
- The Subject/Object Divide
- Abjection and film, television, music, performance
- The Abject Spectator
- Fine art and abjection
Please submit a 500-word abstract and a short biography by September 7 to nic.sammond@utoronto.ca