"Embodiment and Location"

The physical self often serves as a locus for identity formations (and for concepts of "post-identity"), a site for the exercise of power, a place for the interaction of myriad discourses. That embodied self also exists within and between numerous locations: geographic and social place, transnational movement and migration, political and institutional spaces, popular and avant-garde discourses. This panel invites papers addressing the problem or the promise of embodiment and location in post-1870 American literatures and cultures ("literatures" defined broadly). Issues of ability/disability, representation, technology, race, gender, sex, sexuality, class are especially encouraged. Please send abstract of 250 words by April 21 to:

Bill Albertini
English Department
Bowling Green State University

woalber@bgnet.bgsu.edu .

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