Subject: CFP: Mapping the Body (9/15/02, ACLA April 4-5, 2002)
CFP: Cartographies of Corporeality
ACLA Conference April 4-6, 2003
San Marcos California
Deadline for Submissions: September 15, 2002
This panel seeks proposals for 20-30 minute papers which interrogate the
overlap and 'crossing' between mapping the world and mapping the body. A
persistent theme in post-colonial writing as well as in feminist fiction,
these 'somatic mappings' often explore how the body crosses over into
places/cultures/geographies and how places/culture/geographies map
themselves onto bodies. In contemporary fiction, writers such as Jeanette
Winterson, Jamaica Kinkcaid, Peter Carey, Bharati Mukherjee, Margaret
Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and Junot Diaz have 'mapped' the relationship
between bodies and geographies in diverse ways. In addition, recent
theoretical accounts such as Places Through the Body, Thinking Through the
Skin, Bodies Out of Bounds, Nomadic Subjects, Bodies that Matter, and
Bodies of Thought have charted various inroads examining the complex
dialectic between bodies and places.
This panel seeks to discuss these various 'cartographies of corporeality'
in relation to the general conference theme of 'crossing over'. Papers
reading these somatic mappings through the guise of contemporary theory are
particularly welcome.
More generally, this panel seeks to address some of the following questions:
How do different types/genres/styles of fiction map the body? (i.e.
post-colonial, feminist, Victorian, science fiction, the grotesque,etc.)
What are the effects of conceiving of the body as a zone to be mapped? How
do such configurations ally with cybernetic/virtual conceptions of the body?
How is gender/race/class/sexuality mapped onto the body? How can these
mappings be reconfigured?
What are the delimiting/enabling factors of conceiving of the body as a
'land mass' that can be traversed, codified, and charted?
Does identity politics, as theorist Wendy Brown claims, 'map' the body as
abject?
How can Judith Butler's conception of "Bodies that Matter" be allied to a
reconfigured mapping of various types of bodies?
How do particular historical epochs, cultural trends, geographical
locations map the body?
What corporeal cartographies have emerged/are emerging in the 21st century?
How are political/presidenital bodies mapped?
How does nationalism inform somatic mapping?
Please send 400 word abstracts to Natalie Wilson at nkwc@earthlink.net.
Please ensure abstracts are sent in the body of the e-mail, not as
attachments.
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