Disability studies : enabling the humanities /
edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
- xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-371) and index.
Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / Visible cripple (scars and other disfiguring displays included) / Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics / Politics of staring : visual rhetorics of disability in popular photography / Hearing things : the scandal of speech in deaf performance / Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Bodies of difference : politics, disability, and representation / Signifying bodies : life writing and disability studies / Oliver Sacks and the medical case narrative / Autobiography of the aching body in Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos / Reconstructing the posthuman feminist body twenty years after Audre Lorde's Cancer journals / Infinities of forms : disability figures in artistic traditions / Exemplary aberration : Samuel Johnson and the English canon / Bulwer's speaking hands : deafness and rhetoric / Twin structure : disabled women in Victorian courtship plots / Exploring the "hearing line" : deafness, laughter, and Mark Twain / "How dare a sick man or an obedient man write poems?" Whitman and the dis-ease of the perfect body / "No friend of the Third Reich" : disability as the basis for antifascist resistance in Arnold Zweig's Das Beil von Wandsbek / Fat detective : obesity and disability / Disabilities, bodies, voices / Constructing a third space : disability studies, the teaching of English, and institutional transformation / Disabled students come out : questions and answers / Enabling pedagogy / If I should live so long / David T. Mitchell -- Mark Jeffreys -- Tobin Siebers -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Michael Davidson -- Robert McRuer -- Lennard J. Davis -- G. Thomas Couser -- Leonard Cassuto -- Encarnacion Juarez -- Diane Price Herndl -- Sex and death and the crippled body : a meditation / Nancy Mairs -- Sharon L. Snyder -- Helen Deutsch -- Jennifer L. Nelson -- Martha Stoddard Holmes -- Christopher Krentz -- Robert J. Scholnick -- Carol Poore -- Sander L. Gilman -- Jim Swan -- James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson -- Georgia Kleege -- Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Michael Berube.
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Blackwell
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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. Disability studies. Humanities. People with disabilities in literature. Sociology of disability.
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Disability studies Disabled Persons psychology Disabled Persons rehabilitation Humanities Medicine in Literature People with disabilities in literature Psychoanalytic Theory Self Concept Social Values Sociology of disability