Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, Culture - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1640141081 ISBN 13 : 9781640141087

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2022

Synopsis

Ableism remains the most socially acceptable form of intolerance, with pejoratives referencing disability - and intellectual disability in particular - remaining largely unquestioned among many. Yet the understanding, depiction, and representation of disability is also clearly in a process of transformation. This volume analyzes that transformation, taking a close look at attitudes toward disability in historical and contemporary German-speaking contexts.

The volume begins with an overview of the emergence and growth of disability studies in German-speaking Europe against the background of the field's emergence a decade or so earlier in the US and UK. The differences in timing, methodology, and research concentrations bring into focus how each cultural context has shaped the field of disability studies in its multiple and diverse approaches. Building on recent scholarship that uses a cultural studies approach, the volume's three sections analyze constructs of disability and ability in history, memory, and culture. The essays in the history section examine how the emotions, morality, and power have played into - and still do play into - the individual's experience of disability. Those in the memory section grapple with the origins of the Nazi persecution of people with disabilities, the fight for recognition of this genocide, and the politics of its commemoration. Finally, the culture section offers close readings of disability in literary and filmic texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

LINDA LESKAU is Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit) at TU Dortmund University.

TANJA NUSSER is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

KATHERINE SORRELS is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1640141081
• ISBN 13: 9781640141087
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Éditeur: Leskau Linda, Nusser Tanja, Katherine Sorrels Katherine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne