Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities
Editor(s): Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Pages: xiii & 386 pp.
Published: 2002
ISBN: 9780873529815
"A superb reference source for those interested in exploring the field of disability studies, this volume brings together seminal essays by leading scholars in the area. . . . Essential."
D. J. Winchester
Yeshiva University
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"An exemplary introduction to the politics and the pedagogy of disability studies."
Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as sex was in the Victorian world, the ubiquitous unspoken topic in today's culture. The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society.
Edited and introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and containing an afterword by Michael Bérubé (author of Life As We Know It), the volume is rich
- in its cast of characters (including Oliver Sacks, Dr. Kevorkian, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Nero Wolfe)
- in its powerful, authentic accounts of disabled conditions (deafness, blindness, MS, cancer, the absence of limbs)
- in its different settings (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, Nazi Germany, modern America)
- and in its mix of the intellectual and the emotional, of subtle theory and plainspoken autobiography.
Table of Contents
Disability Studies
Introduction: Integrating Disability into Teaching and Scholarship
Enabling Theory
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
Autobiographical Subjects
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
Rehabilitating Representation
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
Enabling Pedagogy
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 Bérubé
Works Cited
Index
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