CfP: Bodies, Immunity, Discourse: Post-AIDS Literature
Call for Papers: Bodies, Immunity, Discourse: Post-AIDS
Literature
44th Annual Convention Northeast Modern Language
Association (NeMLA) March 21-24, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts
The 44th Annual Convention will feature approximately 350
sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested
participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however,
panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention
participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative
session or participate in a roundtable.
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2012
Bodies, Immunity, Discourse: Post-AIDS Literature
At this time when HIV infection rates are surging in
specified populations, what are the newer, Post-AIDS literary forms (less
centered on mourning and loss) that portray the most recent cultural knowledge
of the AIDS crisis? How do current literary forms describe and define any of
the following: the medicalization of AIDS, the expressivity of AIDS bodies,
social vs. individual immunity, the recent social history of immunology, the
scarcity of socio-cultural critiques of HIV diagnoses.
Abstracts: John Robinson-Appels, jr2168@columbia.edu.