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Excuse the cross-posting.
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Special Issue:
Blindness and Literature Special Guest Editor: Georgina Kleege Blindness
seems to hold a particular fascination for writers from all cultures,
functioning in a variety of ways in different texts. Blindness can
indicate divine retribution for some sort of transgression, or can serve
as a personal tragedy to be overcome. Blind figures can highlight the
virtue and compassion of sighted characters, or act as seers and
teachers commenting upon and guiding sighted protagonists. This special
issue of JLCDS will explore literary representations of blindness and
vision impairment. Topics may include: blind seers and prophets, Homer's
blindness, Milton's blindness, Joyce's blindness, Borges's blindness,
blindness and visuality, blindness and aurality, blindness and gender,
memoirs of lost sight, memoirs of restored sight, and so on.
Proposals should be e-mailed to the guest editor Georgina Kleege
[log in to unmask] and the editor David Bolt [log in to unmask] before
October 1 2008. Invited authors will then have at least 3 months to
submit the final typescripts.
Book reviews that relate to the issue should be e-mailed to the Book
Reviews Editor Clare Barker [log in to unmask] before January 15
2009.
Further information is available at www.journalofliterarydisability.com
NB In 2009 Journal of Literary Disability will be moving to Liverpool
University Press, 3 issues per annum, print as well as online formats,
and the new title Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.
The journal will no longer be free, so LUP subscription will be
necessary. Further information is available at:
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3856
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