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Lire et écrire le handicap dans la littérature française et francophone contemporaine / Reading and Writing (Dis)ability in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature (NeMLA 2023)

Lire et écrire le handicap dans la littérature française et francophone contemporaine / Reading and Writing (Dis)ability in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature (NeMLA 2023)

Information publiée le 25 Juin 2022 par Vincent Ferré  (source : Yassine Ait Ali)
Le 30 Septembre 2022
Buffalo (Chutes du Niagara), NY, Etats-Unis

Appel à contributions 
Lire et écrire le handicap dans la littérature française et francophone contemporaine
Reading and Writing (Dis)ability in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature
Organisateurs: Yassine Ait Ali (Princeton), Nikhita Obeegadoo (Harvard)

NeMLA 2023 - Chutes du Niagara (Buffalo), NY, Etats-Unis
23-26 mars 2023

Literary explorations of (dis)ability are intensifying and reaching new audiences in the French and Francophone world. A quick look at recent nominees of the prestigious Goncourt literary prize confirms as much: Clara Dupont-Monod’s S’adapter (2021) explores the various forms of "adaptation" undergone by a family who welcomes a "different" child into its midst, while Adèle Rosenfeld’s Les méduses n'ont pas d'oreilles (2022) delves into the challenges of hearing impairment in today’s transhumanist world. These works of literature are central to placing (dis)ability at the heart of both public and academic debate, not through mere “labels” or “categories,” but as a productive provocation to re-imagine the diversity of human minds and bodies. This rich French and Francophone literary corpus remains understudied, given the slow uptake of disability studies in French academia as opposed to its UK and US counterparts (see, for instance, Hannah Thompson's "French and Francophone Disability Studies", 2017). Seeking to address this void, our panel welcomes contributions situated at the crossroads between disability studies and contemporary French and Francophone literature. How do texts' play with narrative and language help us reframe what we understand by (dis-)abled bodies? After all, literature engages with "othered" bodies as enmeshed within broader constellations of feelings and circumstances, thus engaging not simply with their tragic aspects but also their potential for agency, resilience and creativity. How are literary imaginations of (dis)ability crucially modulated by cultural expectations, as well as factors such as gender, race and sexuality? As Julie Nack Ngue demonstrates in her studies of West African and Caribbean narratives (2011), concepts emerging from disability studies are also meaningful in relation to postcolonial and racial theory; together, they may operate in politically subversive ways that defy hegemonic Western paradigms. Ultimately, then, how does literature crucially push forward interdisciplinary conversations on (dis)ability?

This panel welcomes papers that explore how narrative and language re-imagine (dis)abled minds and bodies, often in relation to factors such as race, gender and sexuality. We are interested in how literature explores "othered" bodies as not simply vessels for tragedy but also agents of resilience, agency and creativity, thus pushing forward the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. Papers can be presented in English or French.


Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words via this link https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20055 by September 30, 2022.

Responsable :

Yassine Ait Ali / Nikhita Obeegadoo

url de référence

https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20055

adresse

Buffalo (Chutes du Niagara), NY, Etats-Unis

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