Disability And/in Prose

Informationen zum Autor Brenda Jo Brueggemann is at The Ohio State University., Marian E. Lupo is at The Ohio State University. Through a series of critical essays this book concerns the relationships and possibilities in and between prose and disability. It covers a diverse range from the role of the disability memoir, the effect of disablement on soldiers, phantom limb syndrome and the suspicion of 'faking it' that sometimes surrounds. Zusammenfassung Through a series of critical essays this book concerns the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". It covers a diverse range from the role of the disability memoir, the effect of disablement on soldiers, phantom limb syndrome and the suspicion of ‘faking it’ that sometimes surrounds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The Body's Moments, Helen Deutsch; Chapter 2 “[A]ll in Me is Nature”, Kathleen James-Cavan; Chapter 3 Duncan Campbell and the Discourses of Deafness, Christopher Krentz; Chapter 4, Sally Hayward; Chapter 5 Reading a Life between the Lines Thérèse-Adéle Husson's reflections on blindness, Georgina Kleege; Chapter 6 Cripple, Soldier, Crippled Soldier, William Etter; Chapter 7 Phantom Pains, Brenda M. Boyle; Chapter 8 Between the Valley and the Field, Jay Dolmage; Chapter 9 Fixated on Ability, Vivian M. May, Beth A. Ferri; Chapter 10 Disability as Metaphor: What's wrong with Lying, G. Thomas Couser; Chapter 11 Walt Whitman's “Specimen Days” and the Discovery of the Disability Memoir, Stephen Kuusisto; Chapter 12 Reading Me/Me Reading Disability, Mark Sherry; Chapter 13 Becoming Svämï, Kristina Torres; Chapter 14 (Im)Patient, Lynn Z. Bloom;

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Jo (Ohio State University Brueggemann, Brenda Jo (Ohio State University) Lup Brueggemann
• Assisted by: Brenda Jo Brueggemann (Editor), Brueggemann Brenda Jo (Editor), Marian E. Lupo (Editor), Lupo Marian E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2009
• EAN: 9780415491525
• ISBN: 978-0-415-49152-5
• No. of pages: 16
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social & cultural history, Warfare & defence, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Warfare and defence, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare