Embodying Difference: Critical Phenomenology and Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexuality

by Simon Dickel

Overview

This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the consequences of stigmatization and the bodily dimensions of social differences. The texts include Robert F. Murphy’s The Body Silent, Simi Linton’s My Body Politic, Rod Michalko’s The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness, three memoirs by Stephen Kuusisto, Vincent O. Carter’s The Bern Book, as well as two novels, Matthew Griffin’s Hide and Armistead Maupin’s Maybe the Moon. All of the texts discussed in this book negotiate the significance of bodily and perceptual habits, the influence of language and culture on embodiment, the importance of relationality and community, the severe effects of misrecognition, and the possibilities of emancipation and socialrecognition. Hence, they are read as pioneering contributions to the emerging field of critical phenomenology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030901066
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/09/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Simon Dickel is Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. He is the author of Black/Gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s (2011).

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Disability and Embodiment.- 3 Blindness and Perception.- 4 Blackness and Visibility.- 5 Gayness and Invisibility.