[показать] [NIS_GS:] CFP: Men, Masculinities, and Disabilities (3/1/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers on the above subject. All approaches, topics, and methodologies welcome. We are especially interested in questions of authorship, authority, and the masculine corporeal imaginary in American writing; disabilities as masculine stigma and stigmata; disabilities and/as poetics; normativity, men, and the authority of difference; men, disability, and "deviance"/the cultural meaning, and potential, of disability as deviance; masculinities/disabilities-sexualities/textualities; the disabled worker, athlete, veteran, friend, lover, husband, father in American writing.
Queries welcome. Please send 500-word proposals by March 1, 2006 to
Barbara Ladd, Associate Professor, Department of English, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 or to bladd@emory.edu.
Any requests for audiovisual equipment should accompany the proposal. The 2006 SAMLA meeting will be held in Charlotte, N.C. See http://www.samla.org for general information.
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