...Richard Delgado; Jean Stefancic Abstract In the last few years, a number of literary scholars and not a few legal writers have pondered the disappearance of the self from both literary analysis and law. Is consciousness, the “I” of literature and litigation, receding in importance, and, if so...

...? The Eye Altering C a r l G u t ié r r e z -J o n e s W ith th e ir essay, "K eeping an Eye on Each Other," Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic in v ite th e ir readers to co n tem p la te the em b a ttle d nature o f the self in legal and lite r­ ary contexts.1The essay draws various parallels between...

... t. W h o are yo u , a n yw a y? " ask Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic in "Keeping an Eye on Each O ther."1The "y o u " interpellated th e re is s o m e o n e m ayb e som e m an like m e in an English d e p a rtm e n t. But the " y o u " I also feel called upon by them to be, in this response...

... Stefancic's "K e e p in g an Eye on Each O th e r" is in line w ith th e ir v ie w th a t an o ste n sib ly "s e lf-e ffa cin g " legal th e o ry is n o to rio u s ly o b liv io u s about its ow n in e vita b ly value-laden po litics.1 Delgado and Stefancic sh o w how in so m any contexts, w e constantly fin...

... into which we can project our own desires or fantasies. As such, we have w rit­ ers Philip Joseph, Richard Delgado, and Jean Stefancic asserting the necessity of "reveal­ in g" or exposing certain bodies, certain identities, as "coherent," nameable, whole so that they can be served or recognized (by the law...

... of Chicago Press,1995) and 9/11: The Culture o f Commemoration (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Jean Stefancic is research professor of law at Seattle University, where she teaches and writes in the areas of critical theory and civil rights law, often in the company of her husband and colleague Richard...