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From: On Behalf Of Melanie Yergeau
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:08 PM
Subject: CFP: Disability and Rhetoric (abstracts due 2/1/10)
CFP pasted below. Please distribute widely, and please consider
submitting.
Thanks!
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*Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly:
Disability and Rhetoric*
The profound insight of Disability Studies is its conception of
disability as a representational system rather than as a medical
problem, a deficit, or
a personal tragedy (Thomson, 1997). In this view, disability is regarded
not as a settled physical or cognitive fact but rather as a discourse, a
collection of figures and narratives, tropes and topoi, speakers and
audiences that suggest identities and positions in the world to those
participating in the discourse. The analysis of disability, then,
necessarily goes beyond medical and psychological perspectives to
consider how words and other symbols may be used, recalling Kenneth
Burke (1969), by human agents, "to form attitudes or to induce actions
in other human agents" (41). Disability, to say it another way, is
inherently rhetorical and may best be understood through methods of
rhetorical inquiry and analysis.
To that end, a special issue of the Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ)
will address the topic of rhetoric and disability. While Disability
Studies has
revealed the essentially discursive nature of disability, rhetorical
theory and analysis promise to further the discussion by contributing a
unique set
of methods, terms, and concepts. Rhetorical method is a particularly
important concern, and we are especially interested in essays that
illustrate diverse methods and modes of rhetorical analysis as these
relate to disability. Essays may analyze the workings of rhetoric in
printed works
about disability but also in other media, including film, music,
web-texts, graphic novels, and other forms of sound and image.
We define "disability" broadly to include physical, cognitive, and
intellectual difference. The ideal essays will enrich understandings of
the
relationship of rhetoric and disability, but will also serve as models
for future scholarship in studies of symbolic representations of
disability.
Potential issues or topics may include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- Disability as, in, *or* and rhetoric
- Disability and *or* as trope
- Disability rhetorics in the media
- Disability rhetorics in the classroom, workplace, or home
- Disability rhetorics and narrative
- Disability and digital rhetorics
- Activism and rhetoric
- Disability and audience
- Disability and rhetorical appeals, the rhetorical canons, and/or
the rhetorical triangle
- Disability and legal/governmental rhetorics
- Rhetorics of accessibility
- Rhetorical constructions of disabled identity
*Timeline*
Queries or abstracts sent by February 1, 2010
Full submissions due July 1, 2010
Final revisions due November 31, 2010
Publication in the Winter 2011 issue of DSQ.
*Submission guidelines*
Manuscripts must be in the form of a Word document and:
- Have a cover page that includes the author's name, institutional
affiliation, and contact information
- Have an abstract of 100-150 words
- Be between 3,000-6,000 words in length (approximately 10-20
double-spaced pages)
- Provide full references for all citations
- Include a brief biography of the author (50-100 words)
- Follow DSQ guidelines:
http://www.dsq-sds.org/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
Please send queries and submissions to John Duffy ([log in to unmask]) and
Melanie Yergeau ([log in to unmask]).
*References*
Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Thomson, R. G. (1997). Disability, identity, and representation: An
introduction. In R.G. Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical
Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia
University Press, 5-18.
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Melanie Yergeau
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
The Ohio State University
Office: 547 Denney Hall
Email: [log in to unmask]
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