[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature and Arts as Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory and Cultural Production: The Confessions of an Accidental Crit

Abstract

This short article: (1) explains the development the Arts Panel at the LatCrit IV Conference and provides an account of its substantive content; (2) it gives the author's reactions to the presentations, while placing them within the planned description and written questions, locating them within the contemporary debate over the use of narrative in legal scholarship and in postmodern philosophical discourse more generally; and (3) the author gives a narrative about his own reluctant, difficult, and ultimately accidental gravitation towards LatCrit theory.

Keywords: LatCrit Theory, Critical Race Theory, Narrative, Law and Culture, Law and Society