Disability Studies :
Disability Studies : enabling the humanities /
edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, c2002.
- xiii, 386 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-371) and index.
Introduction: Integrating Disability into Teaching and Scholarship -- Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor / The Visible Cripple (Scars and Other Disfiguring Displays Included) / Tender Organs, Narcissism, and Identity Politics / The 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 / The Autobiography of the Aching Body in Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos / David T. Mitchell -- Mark Jeffreys -- Tobin Siebers -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Michael Davidson -- Robert McRuer -- Lennard J. Davis -- G. Thomas Couser -- Leonard Cassuto -- Encarnacion Juarez -- Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals / Sex and Death and the Crippled Body: A Meditation / Infinities of Forms: Disability Figures in Artistic Traditions / Exemplary Aberration: Samuel Johnson and the English Canon / Bulwer's Speaking Hands: Deafness and Rhetoric / The 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 / The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability / Disabilities, Bodies, Voices / Diane Price Herndl -- 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 -- Constructing a Third Space: Disability Studies, the Teaching of English, and Institutional Transformation / Disabled Students Come Out: Questions without Answers / An Enabling Pedagogy / Afterword: If I Should Live So Long / James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson -- Georgina Kleege -- Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Michael Berube.
0873529804 9780873529815 (pbk.) 9780873529808 (cloth)
Disability studies.
Humanities.
People with disabilities in literature.
Sociology of disability.
306.908 / DIS
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-371) and index.
Introduction: Integrating Disability into Teaching and Scholarship -- Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor / The Visible Cripple (Scars and Other Disfiguring Displays Included) / Tender Organs, Narcissism, and Identity Politics / The 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 / The Autobiography of the Aching Body in Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos / David T. Mitchell -- Mark Jeffreys -- Tobin Siebers -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Michael Davidson -- Robert McRuer -- Lennard J. Davis -- G. Thomas Couser -- Leonard Cassuto -- Encarnacion Juarez -- Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals / Sex and Death and the Crippled Body: A Meditation / Infinities of Forms: Disability Figures in Artistic Traditions / Exemplary Aberration: Samuel Johnson and the English Canon / Bulwer's Speaking Hands: Deafness and Rhetoric / The 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 / The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability / Disabilities, Bodies, Voices / Diane Price Herndl -- 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 -- Constructing a Third Space: Disability Studies, the Teaching of English, and Institutional Transformation / Disabled Students Come Out: Questions without Answers / An Enabling Pedagogy / Afterword: If I Should Live So Long / James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson -- Georgina Kleege -- Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Michael Berube.
0873529804 9780873529815 (pbk.) 9780873529808 (cloth)
Disability studies.
Humanities.
People with disabilities in literature.
Sociology of disability.
306.908 / DIS