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Disability in twentieth-century German culture / Carol Poore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poore, Carol.
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Germany--History--20th century.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Germany--Public opinion.
- Public opinion--Germany.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- Germany.
- People with disabilities--Nazi persecution.
- People with disabilities--United States--Case studies.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 407 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture covers the entire scope of Germany's most tragic and tumultuous century-from the Weimar Republic to the current administration-revealing how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history. By examining a wide range of literary and visual depictions of disability, Carol Poore explores the contradictions of a nation renowned for its social services programs yet notorious for its history of compulsory sterilization and eugenic dogma. The book concludes with a brief memoir of the author's experiences in Germany as a person with a disability.
- Contents:
- Disability in the culture of the Weimar Republic
- Disability and Nazi culture
- No friends of the Third Reich : different views of disability from exile
- Disability in the defeated nation : the Federal Republic
- Breaking the spell of metaphor : three examples from film, literature, and the media
- Disability and socialist images of the human being in the culture of the German Democratic Republic
- Disability rights, disability culture, disability studies
- German/American bodies politic : a look at some current biocultural debates
- We shall overcome overcoming : an American professor's reflections on disability in Germany and the United States.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472115952
- 9780472025312
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.223254
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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