Disability and Popular Fiction: Reading Representations
Friday 22nd May 2009
A free event funded by Liverpool John Moores University
Part of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network
Theorising Disability in the Media Study Day Series
A space for focused critical analysis and debate around disability,
representation and the mass media
Following the success of ‘Disability and the Internet: Access, Mediation,
Representation’, the CDSRN study day series continues with a symposium
on Disability and Popular Fiction.
How do popular fictional texts represent disability?
What are the links between the conventions of popular genre forms and
disability representation?
Does popular fiction reinforce negative stereotypes about disability, or might
it offer a space for challenging misrepresentations?
Papers are sought which explore any aspect of the relationship between
disability and popular fiction. Suitable topics might include, but are not
limited to:
Representations of disability in individual texts or works by individual authors
Popular works which explicitly engage with disability (e.g. Jeffery Deaver’s
Lincoln Rhyme series, Mary Balogh’s romances)
Disability representation in genre fiction texts (e.g. romance, horror, science
fiction, crime, western, fantasy)
Reflections on existing critical work on disability in literature, and how it
applies (or misapplies) to popular works
Popular works by disabled authors
Titles, abstracts for papers (250 words) or expressions of interest with a
brief biography are invited for submission by 30 March 2009. Papers from
postgraduate students are especially welcome.
For further details please contact Dr. Ria Cheyne [log in to unmask]
Future Study Days will include: Comedy • Television • Animation
If you wish to register an interest for a future event, suggest a topic or host a
study day of your own please email [log in to unmask]
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