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Literary Studies

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Down Syndrome Culture

Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in Iberian and Latin American Contexts

By Benjamin Fraser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Latinx Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

Diaphanous Bodies

Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature

By Jeremy Colangelo
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Modern Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen

Beholding Disability in Renaissance England

By Allison P. Hobgood
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England

HandiLand

The Crippest Place on Earth

By Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Spotlights the heroes and heroines with disabilities in young people’s literature as it also imagines an ideal society for youngsters with disabilities

Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By Stephen Knadler
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Traces the post-Reconstruction roots of the slow violence enacted on black people in the U.S. through the politicization of biological health

Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik
 

The Matter of Disability

Biopolitics, Materiality, Crip Affect

Edited by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability

The Matter of Disability

Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect

Edited by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability

Monstrous Kinds

Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Elucidates how Renaissance writers used monstrosity to imagine what we now call disability

Freak Performances

Dissidence in Latin American Theater

By Analola Santana
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Studies, Latinx Studies

Explores how theater artists challenge the legacy of colonialism in Latin America through performance

Autistic Disturbances

Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe

By Julia Miele Rodas
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Finds and investigates the resonances between autistic speech patterns and literary texts

Affect, Animals, and Autists

Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance

By Marla Carlson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, Literary Studies

Explores the emotional responses of audiences to neurodiverse characters and non-human animals on stage to question the boundaries of the human

Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability

By Shelley Lynn Tremain
Subjects: Philosophy, Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault’s work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability

Academic Ableism

Disability and Higher Education

By Jay T. Dolmage
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Education, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

Communicative Biocapitalism

The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

By Olivia Banner
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Scrutinizes dominant models of health and ability, race, and gender and the structure of digital health

Negotiating Disability

Disclosure and Higher Education

By Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones
Subjects: Disability Studies, Education, Higher Education, Literary Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Thought-provoking essays that explore how disability is named, identified, claimed, and negotiated in higher education settings
 

Portraits of Violence

War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement

By Suzannah Biernoff
Subjects: Art, Disability Studies, History, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Investigates the artistic, medical, and journalistic responses to facial injury in WWI

Bodies of Modernism

Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature

By Maren Linett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals the links, both positive and negative, between disabled bodies and aspects of modernism and modernity through readings of a wide range of literary texts

War on Autism

On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

By Anne McGuire
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges the discourses of autism awareness campaigns for the “logic of violence” they often conceal

Foucault and the Government of Disability

Enlarged and Revised Edition

By Shelley Lynn Tremain
Subjects: Disability Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection

The Biopolitics of Disability

Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

By David T. Mitchell
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art

The Measure of Manliness

Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

Narrative Prosthesis

Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

By David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function

The End of Normal

Identity in a Biocultural Era

By Lennard Davis
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Provocative essays that challenge notions of the “normal” in the new century

The Metanarrative of Blindness

A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing

By David Bolt
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on literary representations of blindness from a disability studies perspective

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