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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: TextTextPublication details: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.Description: xiii, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)ISBN:
  • 0873529804 (cloth)
  • 9780873529808 (cloth)
  • 0873529812 (pbk.)
  • 9780873529815 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.9/08 21
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-371) and index.

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.

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