[ecrea] Call for papers: Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies

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*/Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies/**published by
Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce a special issue…*

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Drama, Theatrical Performance, and Disability

Guest editors: Ann M. Fox and Carrie Sandahl

This special issue of /JCLDS /will consider the representation of
disability in drama and theatrical performance.

The performance of disability in film, television, and popular culture
has received considerable attention within disability studies.  But what
of the representation of disability in drama and other theatrical
performance, that is, the persistent presence of disability in embodied,
spoken/signed performances created specifically for the stage? From
/Philoctetes /to /Pyretown/, from Deaf West to Wry Crips, plays and
performers have engaged the disability experience in multivaried ways.
These representations sometimes have been complex, problematic, or
contradictory, revealing how disability is situated and constructed in a
particular place and time.  They have sometimes created space for the
new; for example, in the forthcoming volume /Disability, Avoidance, and
the Academy: Challenging Resistance /(Routledge, 2015) Ann Fox has
coined the term “fabulous invalid” to denote the presence of a disabled
character in mainstream drama whose presence recasts old ideas about
disability, deploying it as creative and generative. Theatrical
performance has likewise been a site for disabled performers to tell
their stories and insist on visibility.  It has been ten years since
Carrie Sandahl and Phillip Auslander’s /Bodies in Commotion/ and
Victoria Ann Lewis’s /Beyond Victims and Villains/. Both these
anthologies included discussions of drama and theatrical performance.
This special issue of JLCDS extends and focuses these efforts to
critical disability studies analyses of play texts and live performance
that is explicitly theatrically framed. The guest editors are also
interested in pieces that explore central concerns of theater and
performance artists who are creating new work or reviving canonical
texts that feature representations of disability experience.  Please
note that this issue is focused on texts and performances that are
specifically shaped for theatrical performance, and not on the
performance of everyday life or “invisible theater.”

Contributions might consider but need not be limited to:

·Disability representations in dramatic literature in any time period.
Please note global literatures are welcome, but must be written about in
English translation.

·Creating disability culture through performance.

·Creating Deaf culture through performance.

·Intersectional identities in drama (e.g., what might crip and camp have
to say to one another? How do race and disability interrelate on stage?).

·The disabled body configured in theatrical spaces.

·Disabled or Deaf playwrights, actors, theater companies, and
performance artists.

·Writing across the disabled/nondisabled “divide” or the hearing/Deaf
“divide.”

·Community-based theaters that engage disability topics and disability
aesthetics.

·Disability and solo performance.

·“Deaf gain” and “Disability gain” in dramatic performance and writing
(for a discussion of “Deaf gain,” see the introduction to /Deaf Gain:
Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity /(U of Minnesota P, 2014)).

·The politics and possibilities surrounding disability and casting.

·Disability aesthetics in drama and performance.

·The social, political, and/or aesthetic implications of recent
initiatives to make theatre more accessible.

·The aesthetics of disability “accommodations” (traditional and innovative).

·Training and professional development for disabled playwrights, actors,
and performance artists.

Important dates:

January 15, 2016: submission of a 500 words proposal and a one-page
curriculum vitae to guest editors at (anfox /at/ davidson.edu)
<mailto:(anfox /at/ davidson.edu)> and (csandahl /at/ uic.edu) <mailto:(csandahl /at/ uic.edu)>.

February 15, 2016: prospective authors notified of proposal status.

August  1, 2016: final versions of selected papers due to editors.

November 1, 2016: Decisions and revisions on submissions sent to authors.

February 1, 2017: Final, revised papers due.

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