Body as/and Text

Body as/and Text
Call for papers

- Cultural transformations, literary and philosophical representations of the body;
- Body and embodiment – various modes of representation throughout the ages;
- Representing the body in contemporary media, arts and architecture;
- Reproductive bodies/texts - Reproducing bodies/texts;
- The fragmented body/text, made up of disparate pieces (body-in-pieces);
- Corporeality, race, class, and ethnic identity;
- Sex, gender and the body;
- Post-human bodies: technology, science, and the body;
- The cultural politics of body/text modification: bodily deformation and textual deviation;
- The anatomy of body politics: entrails and organs;
- Body and text mutilation, modification, multiplication;
- Naked bodies/adorned bodies: nudity, obscenity, fashion;
- The monstrous body and the transgressive text;
- Written bodies: plastic surgery, tattoos, piercing;
- Broken bodies: illness, disability, old-age, and death;
- Body/text posterity: organ donation and intertextuality.

We welcome papers in English, German, French, and Romanian. Abstracts (c. 200 words) and full papers (up to c. 7,000 words), together with a brief biographical sketch (c. 400 words), are to be sent to the following address: .




Luminita-Elena Turcu
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava
Str. Universitatii 13, 720229 Suceava, Romania
Phone: +40 230 216 147/ 249
Email: l_turcu@yahoo.com
Visit the website at http://meridiancritic.usv.ro