CFP: Rewriting the Body (grad) (1/5/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)
CFP: Rewriting the Body (grad) (1/5/07; disjunctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)
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This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, =
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University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference, =
April 7-8, 2006. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation =
Nation," this panel attempts to explore how the body as cultural text is =
rewritten through acts of (re)appropriation, misappropriation, passing, =
mimicry, and resignification.
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Papers from all periods and areas are welcome. Suggested topics include
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Juridical bodies
Virtual bodies
Historical, narrative, and/or developmental bodies
Racialized, gendered, and/or sexed bodies
Monstrous and/or illegible bodies
Confessional bodies
Transgender and/or transsexual bodies
(Non)Canonical bodies
Material bodies
Supernatural, phantasmal, and/or illusory bodies
Pathologized, medicalized, criminalized, and/or abject bodies
'Primitive' and/or postmodern bodies
Uncontrollable and/or excessive bodies
Fetishized and/or idealized bodies
Fragmented bodies and/or bodies without organs
Performative bodies, broadly conceived
Bodies as ontology
Bodies under (de)/(re)construction
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Email abstracts of approximately 250 words to =
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on or before Jan. 5, 2007. All submissions will be acknowledged upon =
receipt.
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