Symposium announcement

[shubha ghosh]

I wanted to use this forum to announce the following:

CALL FOR PAPERS


Symposium on Pynchon and Law

sponsored by  Oklahoma City University Law Review
	         Oklahoma City University Law School

                              to be published         Summer  1998


	Thomas Pynchon's writings have always invited inquiry into science and
technology.    With the publications of Vineland and  Mason & Dixon, Pynchon
focuses his sights on the formation, founding, and foibles of the American
Republic.    In light of this expansion of  his interests, the natural
question is how does Pynchon's work inform our notions of law, literature,
and society.     

	The Oklahoma City University Law Review welcomes papers that touch on the
intersection of Pynchon and Law from any perspective.     Especially
desirable are papers which focus  on  the following themes:

Pynchon's Legal Landscape
Natural and Scientific Law in "Entropy",   V.  and Gravity's Rainbow
Law and Representation in The Crying of Lot 49
Race, Colonialism, and Integration
The Historical Pynchon and the Puritan Roots of Gravity's Rainbow
The Enlightenment as seen in Mason & Dixon
Borders and  Community 
Law and Lawlessness in  the Zone and Vineland
Gender and Sexuality

	...or any other topic.


Proposals in the form of drafts, précis, abstracts, or outlines will be due
by October 1, 1997.
Final drafts should be completed by March 1, 1998.


Please submit all proposals or inquiries to:			Professor Shubha Ghosh
								Oklahoma City University School of Law
								2501 N. Blackwelder
								Oklahoma City, OK 73116
								405-521-5809
								sghosh at lec.okcu.edu