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Book cover image of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities by Sharon L. Snyder

Authors: Sharon L. Snyder (Editor), Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Editor), Brenda Jo Brueggemann
ISBN-13: 9780873529815, ISBN-10: 0873529812
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: BK&CD-ROM

Author Biography: Sharon L. Snyder

Book Synopsis

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Integrating Disability into Teaching and Scholarship	1
	Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor	15
	The Visible Cripple (Scars and Other Disfiguring Displays Included)	31
	Tender Organs, Narcissism, and Identity Politics	40
	The Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography	56
	Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance	76
	Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence	88
	Bodies of Difference: Politics, Disability, and Representation	100
	Signifying Bodies: Life Writing and Disability Studies	109
	Oliver Sacks and the Medical Case Narrative	118
	The Autobiography of the Aching Body in Teresa de Cartagena's Arboleda de los enfermos	131
	Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals	144
	Sex and Death and the Crippled Body: A Meditation	156
	Infinities of Forms: Disability Figures in Artistic Traditions	173
	Exemplary Aberration: Samuel Johnson and the English Canon	197
	Bulwer's Speaking Hands: Deafness and Rhetoric	211
	The Twin Structure: Disabled Women in Victorian Courtship Plots	222
	Exploring the "Hearing Line": Deafness, Laughter, and Mark Twain	234
	"How Dare a Sick Man or an Obedient Man Write Poems?" Whitman and the Dis-ease of the Perfect Body	248
	"No Friend of the Third Reich": Disability as the Basis for Antifascist Resistance in Arnold Zweig's Das Beil von Wandsbek	260
	The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability	271
	Disabilities, Bodies, Voices	283
	Constructing a Third Space: Disability Studies, the Teaching of English, and Institutional Transformation	296
	Disabled Students Come Out: Questions without Answers	308
	An Enabling Pedagogy	317
	Afterword: If I Should Live So Long	337
	Notes on Contributors	345
	Works Cited	351
	Index	373