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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
List of contents
Introduction: The Ecosomatic Paradigm in American Literature
Matthew J. C. Cella
Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Fiction
1. Claiming the Land: Fictions of Wholeness in Hope Leslie
Amanda Stuckey
2.Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia?: Cross-Cultural Possibilities Melville's Typee
Elizabeth S. Callaway
3.Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited: Disability and Environmental Ethics in O Pioneers!
Matthew J. C. Cella
Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture
4. Frank Miller's Daredevil: Blindness, the Urban Environment, and the Social Model of Disability
James J. Donahue
5. Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature
Phoebe Chen
6. The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books
Katherine Lashley
Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places
7. "The whole imprisoning wasteland beyond": Forces of Nature, Ableism, and Suburban Dis-ease in Midcentury Literature
Jill E. Anderson
8. A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives
Barbara George
About the author
Barbara George is lecturer of writing and communication at Carnegie Mellon University.
