Disability Studies Enabling the Humanities

Snyder, Sharon L. (Editor)/ Brueggemann, Brenda Jo (Editor)/ Thomson, Rosemarie Garland (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0873529812 / ISBN 13: 9780873529815

Edité par Modern Language Assn of Amer, 2002

paperback/cd-rom edition. 386 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur 0873529812

Synopsis :

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Disability Studies Enabling the Humanities
Éditeur : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Date d'édition : 2002
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Brand New