Disability and the Environment in American Literature - Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Matthew J. C. Cella - Contributions by Jill E. Anderson; Elizabeth S. Callaway; Phoebe Chen; James J. Donahue; Barbara George; Katherine Lashley and Amanda Stuckey Klappentext The essays in Disability and the Environment in American Literature contribute new insights into the fields of literary disability studies and ecocriticism by placing the two fields in dialogue. The book offers readings of American literary narratives of place that expose the deep relationship between embodiment and emplacement and that explore the ways in which a scrutiny of this relationship might open up our understanding of disability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Ecosomatic Paradigm in American LiteratureMatthew J. C. CellaPart I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Fiction1. Claiming the Land: Fictions of Wholeness in Hope LeslieAmanda Stuckey2.Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia?: Cross-Cultural Possibilities Melville's TypeeElizabeth S. Callaway3.Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited: Disability and Environmental Ethics in O Pioneers!Matthew J. C. CellaPart II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture4. Frank Miller's Daredevil: Blindness, the Urban Environment, and the Social Model of DisabilityJames J. Donahue5. Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult LiteraturePhoebe Chen6. The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's BooksKatherine LashleyPart III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places7. "The whole imprisoning wasteland beyond": Forces of Nature, Ableism, and Suburban Dis-ease in Midcentury LiteratureJill E. Anderson8. A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt NarrativesBarbara George

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• Authors: Matthew J. C. Cella
• Assisted by: Matthew J Cella (Editor), Matthew J. Cella (Editor), Matthew J. C. Cella (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781498513975
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1397-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, Social impact of environmental issues, Disability: social aspects