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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

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

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

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

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 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

Signifying Bodies

Disability in Contemporary Life Writing

By G. Thomas Couser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind

Medieval Constructions of a Disability

By Edward Wheatley
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, European History
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability

Concerto for the Left Hand

Disability and the Defamiliar Body

By Michael Davidson
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of  art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir

Fictions of Affliction

Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

By Martha Stoddard Holmes
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain

Disability Theory

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies

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