[ecrea] JLCDS: Call For Papers

> Call for Papers
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> Popular Genres and Disability Representation
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> A Special Issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability
> Studies
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> Guest Edited by Dr. Ria Cheyne, Centre for Culture & Disability
> Studies, Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University
>  
> Romance novel or western, detective serial or horror film, the genre of a
> text affects how we “read” it, including our understanding of disabled
> characters.  Genre forms may impose constraints upon the creators of
> texts, such as a particular setting or narrative structure, but they may
> equally open up new possibilities for representation.  In science
> fiction, for example, new technologies, alien bodies, and alternative
> environments can challenge understandings of what constitutes disability
> or impairment. Michael Bérubé speculates that the genre is “as obsessed
> with disability as it is with space travel and alien contact.”  What
> opportunities (and what constraints) might science fiction present, then,
> with regards to disability representation?  More generally, how do
> the structures and conventions of genre forms, such as the need for
> heroine and hero to be united in romance, affect the representation of
> disability?
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> This special issue of JLCDS will explore the interplay of genre
> and disability with a focus on popular genre texts, whether in fiction,
> film, television, or other media.  Submissions might consider
> representations of disability in particular texts or authors, in specific
> genres, or in mainstream texts that enter into dialogue with genre;
> alternatively, they might examine disability theory in relation to genre
> theory, or the role of fan communities.  This list is not
> exhaustive, so submissions on other topics related to disability and
> genre are very welcome.  
>  
> Proposals should be emailed to the guest editor Ria Cheyne
> ((cheyner /at/ hope.ac.uk)) by Monday
> 5th July 2010.  Final submissions will be due by
> 1st February 2011.
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> Dr. David Bolt
>  
> Lecturer and Recognised Researcher, Disability Studies
> http://www.hope.ac.uk/boltd
>  
> Director, Centre for Culture & Disability Studies 
> ccds.hope.ac.uk
>  
> Editor, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
> http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121628
>  
> Email: (boltd /at/ hope.ac.uk)
>  
> Telephone: 0151 291 3346
>  
> Postal Address: Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University,
> Liverpool, L16 9JD

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