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Disability studies : enabling the humanities / edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
LIBRA HV1568.2 .D594 2002 1 v. + CD-ROM
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Van Pelt Library HV1568.2 .D594 2002 1 v. + disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disability studies.
- Humanities.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Sociology of disability.
- Disabled Persons--psychology.
- Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Self Concept.
- Social Values.
- Medical Subjects:
- Disabled Persons--psychology.
- Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Self Concept.
- Social Values.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability remains an unspoken topic in today's culture. The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society.
- Introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and containing an afterword by Michael Berube (author of Life As We Know It), the volume is rich-- in its cast of characters (including Oliver Sacks, Dr. Kevorkian, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Nero Wolfe)-- in its powerful, authentic accounts of disabled conditions (deafness, blindness, MS, cancer, the absence of limbs)-- in its different settings (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, Nazi Germany, modern America)-- in its mix of the intellectual and the emotional, of subtle theory and plainspoken autobiography
- Contents:
- Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / David T. Mitchell
- Visible cripple (scars and other disfiguring displays included) / Mark Jeffreys
- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics / Tobin Siebers
- Politics of staring : visual rhetorics of disability in popular photography / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- Hearing things : the scandal of speech in deaf performance / Michael Davidson
- Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer
- Bodies of difference : politics, disability, and representation / Lennard J. Davis
- Signifying bodies : life writing and disability studies / G. Thomas Couser
- Oliver Sacks and the medical case narrative / Leonard Cassuto
- Autobiography of the aching body in Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos / Encarnacion Juarez
- Reconstructing the posthuman feminist body twenty years after Audre Lorde's Cancer journals / Diane Price Herndl
- Sex and death and the crippled body : a meditation / Nancy Mairs
- Infinities of forms : disability figures in artistic traditions / Sharon L. Snyder
- Exemplary aberration : Samuel Johnson and the English canon / Helen Deutsch
- Bulwer's speaking hands : deafness and rhetoric / Jennifer L. Nelson
- Twin structure : disabled women in Victorian courtship plots / Martha Stoddard Holmes
- Exploring the "hearing line" : deafness, laughter, and Mark Twain / Christopher Krentz
- "How dare a sick man or an obedient man write poems?" Whitman and the dis-ease of the perfect body / Robert J. Scholnick
- "No friend of the Third Reich" : disability as the basis for antifascist resistance in Arnold Zweig's Das Beil von Wandsbek / Carol Poore
- Fat detective : obesity and disability / Sander L. Gilman
- Disabilities, bodies, voices / Jim Swan
- Constructing a third space : disability studies, the teaching of English, and institutional transformation / James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
- Disabled students come out : questions and answers / Georgia Kleege
- Enabling pedagogy / Brenda Jo Brueggemann
- If I should live so long / Michael Berube.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-371) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0873529804
- 0873529812
- 9780873529815
- OCLC:
- 49221927
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