A Brief Literary History of Disability

A Brief Literary History of Disability
Title A Brief Literary History of Disability PDF eBook
Author Fuson Wang
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 217
Release 2022-07-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1000603571

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A Brief Literary History of Disability is a convenient, lucid, and accessible entry point into the rapidly evolving conversation around disability in literary studies. The book follows a chronological structure and each chapter pairs a well-known literary text with a foundational disability theorist in order to develop a simultaneous understanding of literary history and disability theory. The book as a whole, and each chapter, addresses three key questions: Why do we even need a literary history of disability? What counts as the literature of disability? Should we even talk about a literary aesthetic of disability? This book is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to add some disability studies to their literature teaching in any period, and for any students approaching the study of literature and disability. It is also an efficient reference point for scholars looking to include disability studies approaches in their research.

Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability

Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Title Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability PDF eBook
Author Paul K. Longmore
Publisher Temple University Press
Pages 294
Release 2003
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9781592137756

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'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'

Disabilities of the Color Line

Disabilities of the Color Line
Title Disabilities of the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Dennis Tyler
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 333
Release 2022-02-15
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 147980584X

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"Rather than simply engaging in a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement are shunned alike, Disabilities of the Color Line argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed disability as a part of Black social life in varied and complex ways. Sometimes their affirmation of disability serves to capture how their bodies, minds, and health have been and are made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the state and society. Sometimes their assertion of disability symbolizes a sense of commonality and community that comes not only from a recognition of the shared subjection of blackness and disability but also from a willingness to imagine and create a world distinct from the dominant social order. Through the work of David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Mamie Till-Mobley, Disabilities of the Color Line examines how Black writer-activists have engaged in an aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that show how Black communities have rigorously acknowledged disability as a response to forms of racial injury and in the pursuit of racial and disability justice"--

Literature and Disability

Literature and Disability
Title Literature and Disability PDF eBook
Author Alice Hall
Publisher Routledge
Pages 157
Release 2015-08-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317537386

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Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this poses. The author explores: key debates and issues in disability studies today different forms of impairment, with the aim of showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term "disability" the intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing genre and representations of disability in relation to literary forms including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing This volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of literary critical approaches to disability representation.

Disability, Literature, Genre

Disability, Literature, Genre
Title Disability, Literature, Genre PDF eBook
Author Ria Cheyne
Publisher
Pages 216
Release 2019
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1789620775

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This title brings cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies into dialogue for the first time. Analysing representations of disability in contemporary science fiction, romance, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction, it offers new and transformative insights into both the workings of genre and the affective power of disability.

Narrative Prosthesis

Narrative Prosthesis
Title Narrative Prosthesis PDF eBook
Author David T. Mitchell
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 230
Release 2014-05-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0472120808

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Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's Richard III, Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in Geek Love. David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Northern Michigan University. Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature, Northern Michigan University.

Extraordinary Bodies

Extraordinary Bodies
Title Extraordinary Bodies PDF eBook
Author Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 238
Release 2017-03-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0231544774

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Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability. She encouraged new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body and stretched the limits of what counted as a text, considering freak shows and other pop culture artifacts as reflections of community rites and fears. Garland-Thomson also elevated the status of African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde. Extraordinary Bodies laid the groundwork for an appreciation of disability culture and an inclusive new approach to the study of social marginalization.