Disability studies : enabling the humanities / edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
| Other author | Snyder, Sharon L., 1963- |
| Other author | Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, 1958- |
| Other author | Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002. |
| Description | xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-371) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002016698 |
| ISBN | 0873529804 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0873529812 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HV1568.2 .D594 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |