North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Call for Papers: Toronto, April 12-13, 2002
Deadline: September 15th, 2001
Writing HIV/AIDS and Biomedicine
(Part of a Four-Panel AIDS and Literature
Series)
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</pa=
ram><bigger>This proposed panel will ask how biomedical discourses,
medical encounters and biomedical technology are represented
in literature concerning AIDS and HIV. How do literary
representations negotiate, challenge or implicate these domains
and discourses ? How have such representations changed or
evolved throughout the continuation of the crisis of HIV/AIDS ?
How do these representations differ from or echo
representations of biomedicine in other recent writings dealing
with illness and disease (e.g. cancer) ? How can classist, racist,
sexist and/or homophobic assumptions, often implicit in AIDS
biomedicine, be highlighted and perhaps challenged in literature
? This panel seeks to open up discussion of these and other
AIDS-biomedicine related questions.<smaller>
<bigger>Papers may explore biomedical rhetoric and perhaps look at
how certain figurations (e.g. the war metaphor) are used and
recirculated in AIDS writings (and perhaps, comparatively, in
writings about other illnesses or disease). Alternatively, papers
may want to investigate how such writings represent the
patient/doctor relationship or medical technologies. Presenters
could ask how questions of gender, race, class and/or sexuality
intersect with questions of biomedicine in literary texts on AIDS.
Discussions addressing biomedical notions such as =91epidemic=92,
=91risk=92 and/or =91spread=92 and the representations of these in AIDS
writing are also welcomed.
Please submit 350 word abstracts to Joanne Rendell by
September 15, 2001. E-mailed submissions are preferred, and
can be sent to egp98jcr@shef.ac.uk. Hard copies may be
mailed to Joanne Rendell, c/o The School of English, University
of Sheffield, Shearwood Mount, Sheffield S10 2TD. England.
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