Disability in German literature, film, and theater / edited by Eleoma Joshua and Michael Schillmeier.

Other author Bodammer, Eleoma, 1970-
Other author Schillmeier, Michael W. J.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoRochester, NY : Camden House,
Descriptionvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesEdinburgh German yearbook, 1937-0857 ; v. 4
Edinburgh German yearbook ; v. 4. 1937-0857 ^A1143026
Contents Literarische Anthropologie und Groteske : Johann Karl Wezels Tobias Knaut und die Anfa<U+0308>nge einer literarischen Darstellung von "Behinderung" um 1800 / Ute Helduser -- Misreading the body : E.T.A. Hoffmann's Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober / Eloma Joshua -- Exzentrische Empfindung : Raoul Hausmann und die Prothetic der Zwischenkriegszeit / Karin Harrasser -- Bridging the silence : towards a literary memory of Nazi euthanesia / Susanne C. Knittel -- "Die gra<U+0308>ssliche Blume des Grinds" : disfigurement, disablement, and discrimination in Soma Morgenstern's Jewish trilogy Funken im Abgrund / Corinna Ha<U+0308>ger -- Scho<U+0308>ne blinde Geigerinnen und mu<U+0308>rrische blinde Bauern / Siegfried Saerberg -- " ... wenn Sie bereit sind, in mir einen Menschen zu sehen" : Behinderung und die Macht des Blickes in Gu<U+0308>nter Grass' Die Blechtrommel / Rosa Schneider -- "Der hinkende Vogel verfremdet den Flug" : Heiner Mu<U+0308>llers "Philoktet" im Kintext der disability studies / Anna Kornbrodt -- From impairment to empowerment : a re-assessment of Libus<U+030C>e Moni<U+0301>kova<U+0301>'s representation of disability in Pavane fu<U+0308>r eine verstorbene Infantin / Pauline Eyre -- Thalidomide as spectacle and capital / Martin Brady.
Abstract Examines cultural representations of blindness, physical deformity, injury, illness, and euthanasia and posits disability as historically central to discussions of humanity, modernity, and social and moral behavior in German-language literature, film, and theater.
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ISBN9781571134288 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN157113428X (hbk. : alk. paper)

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