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Disability Studies : enabling the humanities / edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Modern Language Association of America, c2002.Description: xiii, 386 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0873529804
  • 9780873529815 (pbk.)
  • 9780873529808 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.908 22 DIS
Contents:
Introduction: Integrating Disability into Teaching and Scholarship -- Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor / David T. Mitchell -- The Visible Cripple (Scars and Other Disfiguring Displays Included) / Mark Jeffreys -- Tender Organs, Narcissism, and Identity Politics / Tobin Siebers -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 without Answers / Georgina Kleege -- An Enabling Pedagogy / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Afterword: If I Should Live So Long / Michael Berube.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-371) and index.

Introduction: Integrating Disability into Teaching and Scholarship -- Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor / David T. Mitchell -- The Visible Cripple (Scars and Other Disfiguring Displays Included) / Mark Jeffreys -- Tender Organs, Narcissism, and Identity Politics / Tobin Siebers -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 without Answers / Georgina Kleege -- An Enabling Pedagogy / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Afterword: If I Should Live So Long / Michael Berube.

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