tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post3572506426805885699..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: Call for Papers: The Cultural Production of Disability (Manchester, UK, Jan 2010)E. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1815800718724153502009-09-20T00:08:33.500+01:002009-09-20T00:08:33.500+01:00Keira, it's Ria Cheyne who's writing the p...Keira, it's Ria Cheyne who's writing the paper on Balogh. I just posted her call for papers.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-68750784423943245212009-09-20T00:06:52.628+01:002009-09-20T00:06:52.628+01:00Laura, would you submit the Balogh paper to JPRS?Laura, would you submit the Balogh paper to JPRS?Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-43554426213287968882009-09-19T01:50:00.404+01:002009-09-19T01:50:00.404+01:00Thanks Janet! I hadn't read that post. I'l...Thanks Janet! I hadn't read that post. I'll put in a <a href="http://bordersblog.com/trueromance/2009/09/18/guest-blogger-blogpushers/" rel="nofollow">direct link here</a> so that it'll still be easy to find if anyone comes across this comment thread some time from now, when that post would no longer be at the top of the page you gave.<br /><br />The blogger, Has, did include a few mini-reviews in her piece, but there were also some general comments about the portrayal of disability in the genre:<br /><br />"<i>I personally have a disability and it has, in many ways, shaped and affected my life and experiences. So when I read a romance that has disability as a trope, it always touches me more deeply than other books that do not feature it. Some books have provided an outstanding representation of living with a disability, while others totally failed as they didn’t capture or reflect those issues realistically for me.<br /><br />Disability in romance, in whatever shape or form, illustrates the struggles and obstacles that the characters have to endure and learn with in their lives.</i>"<br /><br />That last point reminds me of a post I wrote a while ago about the way that the genre often seems to use <a href="http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2007/03/metaphorical-medicine-diagnosing.html" rel="nofollow">medical conditions almost as metaphors</a> to describe the characters' emotions or personalities.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-63376145225727907122009-09-19T01:29:39.308+01:002009-09-19T01:29:39.308+01:00http://bordersblog.com/trueromance/category/uncate...http://bordersblog.com/trueromance/category/uncategorized/ ... how fascinating and coincidentally, Book Chat today had a blogger who blogged on disabilities in romance.<br /><br />I can't wait to share this on the Balogh Yahoo chat group ... her fictional disabilities are often not just physical, but emotional as well.Janet Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388267119996768657noreply@blogger.com