Update SCMLA: Aberrant Communities
South Central Modern Language Association, Hot
Springs, AK, 2003. Deadline extended for special
session:
Aberrant Communities: Unhuman Survival within
Hierarchal Humanity
Freaks, monsters, cyborgs: All are categorized as both
Other and irrovocably alien to human sympathy. This
session examines cinematic and literary treatment of
how the rejected, feared, and abused survive and seek
integrity through communities of necessity and
sympathy. Questions to consider might include: What
do "normal" social institutions consider freakish,
monstrous, or non-human? How do alienated individuals
create communities which provide for their survival,
and what do these communities look like? Is survival,
if liminal and abhored, even desirable?
Deadline for short vita and abstract extended to Jan.
25, 2003. Send electronically or otherwise to:
Professor Delia Fisher
Department of English
Westfield State College
Westfield, MA 01085
FAX 413-562-3613
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