This edited volume seeks to cull together theoretically informed interdisciplinary, feminist and transethnic cultural studies essays that consider the relationship between subalternity, the discourse and technology of the body, and the rise and proliferation of racial, colonial, sexual and state violence. Violence and the Body will attempt to intersect feminist work on the social constructions of the body (Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz and Zillah Eisenstein) with women of color theories of the multiplicity of oppression and resistance (Norma Alarcón, Chandra Mohanty, Chela Sandoval, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Elaine Kim, Inés Hernández-Avila, Pat Hilden and Annette Jaimes Guerrero ) to discern the materiality of colonial/ neocolonial, State, capitalist, homophobic, racial, linguistic, and family violence on the "otherized" body. This University Press anthology will result in what promises to be a major contribution to the expanding fields of ethnic, cultural, border, post-colonial, and feminist studies.

Essays that address the following in cultural, literary, social, historic and filmic texts are especially encouraged: the role and representation of violence in colonial- neocolonial subjugation/ resistance; genocidal violence and the rise of the western nation state; the rise of predatory transnational capitalism (maquiladora narratives); racial injury and criminalization; the feminization of poverty; family and male violence; the further militarization of racialized panoptic regimes (police, INS, criminal justice system); torture; tattoo’s; testimonios; pinto discourse; diaspora; anti-immigrant; Taliban; Brazil; reproduction rights; US imperialism, Border Studies; the reclamation of space/ place; indigenous sovereignties; and alternate constructions of ethnic masculinities.

Submission Guidelines:

• Please-mail or send a two page proposal with bibliography and Curriculum Vitae by May 20, 2000 and an estimated completion date of the essay (Routledge wants to see the volume asap).
• Final essays will be between 20-25 pages double space including endnotes and bibliography.

Arturo J. Aldama is the author of Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexicana/o and Native American Struggles for Representation forthcoming (Duke University Press) and co-editor for the forthcoming volume, Millennial Anxieties: Engendering Space and Place through Chicana/o Cultural Studies.