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-> CFP on Dismemberment for NEMLA, 4/12-13/02
by "Carol Colatrella"
-> CFP Health/Healing panel NEMLA 4/12-13/02 Toronto
by "Carol Colatrella"
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Date: 1 Aug 2001 05:40:39 -0700
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Subject: CFP on Dismemberment for NEMLA, 4/12-13/02
Call for Papers: Dismemberment and the Discontinuous Body
NEMLA, April 12-13, 2002
This panel will explore the meanings and operations of cultural
representations of corporeal dismemberment. Papers should address the
visual or literary treatment of acts and/or the ramifications of
amputation, maiming and self-mutilation. Treatments of both literature
and film are welcome. Proposals addressing different historical
periods and cultural traditions are also welcome. Possible topics for
discussion include:
State power and the spectacle of bodily discipline
Disease, (dis)ability, medical intervention and mobility issues
Dismemberment and the grotesque body
Domestic violence and the dismembered body
Augmented bodies vs. fragmented bodies
The (de)aestheticization of bodily violence
Please send proposals (350 words) by September 15th to:
>>Vanessa Warne
>>Department of English
>>University of Manitoba
>>625 Fletcher Argue Building
>>Winnipeg, MB
>>R3T 5V5
>
Email submissions are welcome. Please address submissions to
vanessawarne@hotmail.com. Please include your proposal in the body of
the message. Thank you.
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Date: 1 Aug 2001 05:42:51 -0700
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Subject: CFP Health/Healing panel NEMLA 4/12-13/02 Toronto
"Like much postmodern art, contemporary medicine situates us in a world
where visual images reproducing fragments of the body (X rays, CT scans,
MRIs) connect with implicit narrative contexts. The question is how far
medicine can recognize a role for narrative beyond continuous retellings
of the authorized biomedical story [of damage and dysfunction]." (David
B. Morris, Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age)
Proposals are invited for a panel at the NEMLA Annual Convention, April
12-13, 2002, Toronto, Canada:
How are health and healing represented in recent (1990s to present)
film, television, and video? More particularly, what are the
implications of personal accounts of illness, health, and healing for
thinking about the still uneasy relations between "alternative"
approaches and established medicine? Topics might include but are not
necessarily limited to: pain, spirituality, care-giving, witnessing,
authority, the environment, the erotic, and the "care of the self." I
am especially interested in entertaining proposals for papers that will
reflect critically on narrative modes, the status of the image, and/or
on representational strategies such as documentary, collage, and the
avant-garde.
Send 1-2 page (250-500 word) proposals by September 15 to:
Dr. Sarah Brophy
brophysc@mcmaster.ca
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CFP@english.upenn.edu
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu
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