1st Edition

Disability and/in Prose

Edited By Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Marian E. Lupo Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Through a series of critical essays this book concerns itself with the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". The critical and/or personal essays in this book all try to explore this potent inbetween space – a place full of possibilities. These prose pieces reflect on prose themselves as they stretch in an uneven yet interesting line from Hay’s ‘modern’ essay on... Read more
Chapter 1 The Body's Moments, Helen Deutsch; Chapter 2 “[A]ll in Me is Nature”, Kathleen James-Cavan; Chapter 3 Duncan Campbell and the Discourses of Deafness, Christopher Krentz; Chapter 4, Sally Hayward; Chapter 5 Reading a Life between the Lines Thérèse-Adéle Husson's reflections on blindness, Georgina Kleege; Chapter 6 Cripple, Soldier, Crippled Soldier, William Etter; Chapter 7 Phantom Pains, Brenda M. Boyle; Chapter 8 Between the Valley and the Field, Jay Dolmage; Chapter 9 Fixated on Ability, Vivian M. May, Beth A. Ferri; Chapter 10 Disability as Metaphor: What's wrong with Lying, G. Thomas Couser; Chapter 11 Walt Whitman's “Specimen Days” and the Discovery of the Disability Memoir, Stephen Kuusisto; Chapter 12 Reading Me/Me Reading Disability, Mark Sherry; Chapter 13 Becoming Svämï, Kristina Torres; Chapter 14 (Im)Patient, Lynn Z. Bloom;

Biography

Brenda Jo Brueggemann is at The Ohio State University.,
Marian E. Lupo is at The Ohio State University.