[UK Event] CCDS Seminar: Dr. Alice Hall —Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in Toni Morrison's Writing

Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in Toni Morrison's Writing



Dr. Alice Hall

Université Paris-Diderot



Date: Wednesday 27 June 2012



Time: 3.15pm–4.45pm

Place: Eden 109, Liverpool Hope University



This paper examines the relationship between disability and beauty as a
central preoccupation of Toni Morrison’s fictional writing, her critical
discourse and her most recent work as a curator. I am interested in how
Morrison’s critical writing about race and identity intersects with
shifting notions of beauty in her fiction, but also, in turn, how these
ideas can provide a conceptual framework for writing about literature and
disability in general.

For more information, please contact:



Dr. David Bolt

Director, Centre for Culture & Disability Studies
ccds.hope.ac.uk

Editor, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
http://JLCDS.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Lecturer, Education and Disability Studies
http://www.hope.ac.uk/boltd

Founder, International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars
http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Network-of-Literary-and-
Cultural-Disability-Scholars/174137315933446
http://twitter.com/#!/INLCDS

Email: boltd@hope.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 291 3346

Office: EDEN 128

Postal address: Graduate School, Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope
University, Liverpool, L16 9JD.

Coming soon: The Madwoman and The Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse,
Disability, edited by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J.
Donaldson
http://www.ohiostatepress.org/books/book%20pages/bolt%20madwoman.html