Disability Studies

by Snyder, Sharon L.

• ISBN13: 9780873529815
• ISBN10: 0873529812
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability remains an 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Integrating Disability into Teaching and Scholarship	1	(14)
Enabling Theory
Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor	15	(16)
David T. Mitchell
The Visible Cripple (Scars and Other Disfiguring Displays Included)	31	(9)
Mark Jeffreys
Tender Organs, Narcissism, and Identity Politics	40	(16)
Tobin Siebers
The Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography	56	(20)
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance	76	(12)
Michael Davidson
Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence	88	(12)
Robert McRuer
Bodies of Difference: Politics, Disability, and Representation	100	(9)
Lennard J. Davis
Autobiographical Subjects
Signifying Bodies: Life Writing and Disability Studies	109	(9)
G. Thomas Couser
Oliver Sacks and the Medical Case Narrative	118	(13)
Leonard Cassuto
The Autobiography of the Aching Body in Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos	131	(13)
Encarnacion Juarez
Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals	144	(12)
Diane Price Herndl
Sex and Death and the Crippled Body: A Meditation	156	(17)
Nancy Mairs
Rehabilitating Representation
Infinities of Forms: Disability Figures in Artistic Traditions	173	(24)
Sharon L. Snyder
Exemplary Aberration: Samuel Johnson and the English Canon	197	(14)
Helen Deutsch
Bulwer's Speaking Hands: Deafness and Rhetoric	211	(11)
Jennifer L. Nelson
The Twin Structure: Disabled Women in Victorian Courtship Plots	222	(12)
Martha Stoddard Holmes
Exploring the ``Hearing Line'': Deafness, Laughter, and Mark Twain	234	(14)
Christopher Krentz
``How Dare a Sick Man or an Obedient Man Write Poems?'' Whitman and the Dis-ease of the Perfect Body	248	(12)
Robert J. Scholnick
``No Friend of the Third Reich'': Disability as the Basis for Antifascist Resistance in Arnold Zweig's Das Beil von Wandsbek	260	(11)
Carol Poore
The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability	271	(12)
Sander L. Gilman
Enabling Pedagogy
Disabilities, Bodies, Voices	283	(13)
Jim Swan
Constructing a Third Space: Disability Studies, the Teaching of English, and Institutional Transformation	296	(12)
James C. Wilson
Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
Disabled Students Come Out: Questions without Answers	308	(9)
Georgina Kleege
An Enabling Pedagogy	317	(20)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Afterword: If I Should Live So Long	337	(8)
Michael Berube
Notes on Contributors	345	(6)
Works Cited	351	(22)
Index	373