[ecrea] CFP: Politics and the Corpse

> CFP: We invite submissions of abstracts for "Politics and the 
> Corpse," a special seminar proposed for the annual meeting of the 
> American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) in New Orleans, 
> LA, April 1-4, 2010.
>
> The traditional sense of politics links up the functioning of the 
> polis with the living bodies that people it.  But what is the 
> relation between politics and the dead body?  How does the corpse 
> inform the political sphere? How does politics give meaning to the 
> corpse? To what extent is the labor of mourning bound up with 
> political concerns? And what is the difference between the political 
> meaning of a dead body and its "human" significance? This seminar 
> proposes to investigate the relation between politics and the corpse 
> from a variety of theoretical perspectives and in a range of 
> contexts, including political assassinations, conspiracy theories, 
> natural disasters, memorials, genocide, and war.  Though the subject 
> matter is broad, we hope to encourage a conversation that draws from 
> a variety of theoretical perspectives to examine the manner in which 
> politics inflects our understanding of the dead body, and the way 
> that death informs our sense of the political.
>
> Abstracts may not exceed 250 words.
>
> Deadline for paper proposals, November 13, 2009.
>
> To submit a paper proposal for this panel, you must submit it to the 
> general conference site, designating this particular panel. You can 
> find the online submission materials at this 
> URL:  http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?page_id=6.
>
> For more information on this panel, contact Jennifer Ballengee 
> ((jballeng /at/ towson.edu)<mailto:(jballeng /at/ towson.edu)>) or David Kelman 
> ((dkelman /at/ fullerton.edu)<mailto:(dkelman /at/ fullerton.edu)>).

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