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

Informationen zum Autor Barbara George is lecturer of writing and communication at Carnegie Mellon University. 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 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Matthew J. C. Cella
• Con la collaborazione di: Matthew J Cella (Editore), Matthew J. Cella (Editore), Matthew J. C. Cella (Editore)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781498513975
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1397-5
• Pagine: 186
• Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura e società: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Social impact of environmental issues, Disability: social aspects, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability