Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities / Edition 1

by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Overview

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's introduction notes, "the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary culture." The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society.

Edited and introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and containing an afterword by Michael Bérubé (author of Life As We Know It), the volume is rich in its cast of characters (including John Bulwer, Teresa de Cartagena, Audre Lorde, Oliver Sacks, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman); in its powerful, authentic accounts of disabled conditions (deafness, blindness, MS, cancer, the absence of limbs); in its different settings (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, Nazi Germany, the modern United States); and in its mix of the intellectual and the emotional, of subtle theory and plainspoken autobiography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873529815
Publisher:	Modern Language Association
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Edition description:	BK&CD-ROM
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

"A superb reference source for those interested in exploring the field of disability studies, this volume brings together seminal essays by leading scholars in the area. . . . Essential." —D. J. Winchester, Yeshiva University

"An exemplary introduction to the politics and the pedagogy of disability studies." —Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics

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