Jason Haslam
Biographic Data
| ID | 837637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Haslam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Haslam |
| SIGNATURE | HASLAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2106-3505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seaweed Salvation
This paper argues that the first two books in Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom’s Pandora series—Destination: Void (1966; written by Herbert alone), and The Jesus Incident (1979)—anticipate, only to counter, Alain Badiou’s argument that a secular, non-transcendental universalism is either possible or necessary to a grounded ethics. Herbert and Ransom instead point to the ways in which universalist ethics tend toward violent assertions of particular v…
Chain-Gang Gothic: The Colonel’s Dream and the Spectacular Terrors of State Punishment
Charles Chesnutt’s 1905 novel The Colonel’s Dream meditates on the structures of spectacle and ignorance that create a continuity of white privilege and white supremacy from North to South, and on the role that the nascent prison-industrial complex plays in that process. Chesnutt uses occasional gothic irruptions within his otherwise realist and sentimental form to show how “hidden” and spectacular punishments, legal and extra-legal state violenc…
Samuel R. Delany, Lou Reed, and Utopia's Queer End
Reading Delany's sword-and-sorcery Nevèrÿon cycle—with a particular focus on the tales collected in Flight from Nevèrÿon, including the AIDS novella The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals (1984)— alongside Lou Reed's songs, this article argues that Delany's fantastic, endlessly queer aesthetic “spaces” offer a complex definition of the queer utopia, one that invokes and demands the future José Esteban Muñoz desires, even as it insists that such a futu…
American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion
A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American Culture This Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture – its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-kn…
American Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion
Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode i…
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction: Reflections on Fantastic Identities
It Was My Dream That Screwed Up”: The Relativity of Transcendence in On the Road
This paper interrogates Jack Kerouac's appropriation and transformation of a Thoreauvian-style transcendentalism by reading On the Road through Mikhail Bakhtin's discussion of the chronotope. Kerouac's chronotopic resistance to dominant visions of the United States brings with it a problematic identity politics, specifically in terms of the racialization of the representation of transcendent identity. Rather than a personal or specific failure of…
The State of Prison
The State of Prison Jason Haslam (bio) Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. By Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 388 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime. By Dylan Rodríguez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 322 pages. $60.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Warfare in the American…
Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century
This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty
"The Open Sesame of a Pork-Colored Skin": Whiteness and Privilege in "Black No More"
Chain-Gang Gothic: The Colonel’s Dream and the Spectacular Terrors of State Punishment
Charles Chesnutt’s 1905 novel The Colonel’s Dream meditates on the structures of spectacle and ignorance that create a continuity of white privilege and white supremacy from North to South, and on the role that the nascent prison-industrial complex plays in that process. Chesnutt uses occasional gothic irruptions within his otherwise realist and sentimental form to show how “hidden” and spectacular punishments, legal and extra-legal state violenc…
"The Open Sesame of a Pork-Colored Skin": Whiteness and Privilege in "Black No More"
Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century
This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty
The State of Prison
The State of Prison Jason Haslam (bio) Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. By Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 388 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime. By Dylan Rodríguez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 322 pages. $60.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). Warfare in the American…
It Was My Dream That Screwed Up”: The Relativity of Transcendence in On the Road
This paper interrogates Jack Kerouac's appropriation and transformation of a Thoreauvian-style transcendentalism by reading On the Road through Mikhail Bakhtin's discussion of the chronotope. Kerouac's chronotopic resistance to dominant visions of the United States brings with it a problematic identity politics, specifically in terms of the racialization of the representation of transcendent identity. Rather than a personal or specific failure of…
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode i…
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction: Reflections on Fantastic Identities
American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion
A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American Culture This Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture – its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-kn…
American Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion
Slavery and American Gothic: The Ghost of the Future
Samuel R. Delany, Lou Reed, and Utopia's Queer End
Reading Delany's sword-and-sorcery Nevèrÿon cycle—with a particular focus on the tales collected in Flight from Nevèrÿon, including the AIDS novella The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals (1984)— alongside Lou Reed's songs, this article argues that Delany's fantastic, endlessly queer aesthetic “spaces” offer a complex definition of the queer utopia, one that invokes and demands the future José Esteban Muñoz desires, even as it insists that such a futu…
Chain-Gang Gothic: The Colonel’s Dream and the Spectacular Terrors of State Punishment
Charles Chesnutt’s 1905 novel The Colonel’s Dream meditates on the structures of spectacle and ignorance that create a continuity of white privilege and white supremacy from North to South, and on the role that the nascent prison-industrial complex plays in that process. Chesnutt uses occasional gothic irruptions within his otherwise realist and sentimental form to show how “hidden” and spectacular punishments, legal and extra-legal state violenc…
Seaweed Salvation
This paper argues that the first two books in Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom’s Pandora series—Destination: Void (1966; written by Herbert alone), and The Jesus Incident (1979)—anticipate, only to counter, Alain Badiou’s argument that a secular, non-transcendental universalism is either possible or necessary to a grounded ethics. Herbert and Ransom instead point to the ways in which universalist ethics tend toward violent assertions of particular v…
Art (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History and criticism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Dream (2 works)