Overview

Through a series of critical essays this book concerns the relationships and possibilities in and between ""prose"" and ""disability"". It covers a diverse range from the role of the disability memoir, the effect of disablement on soldiers, phantom limb syndrome and the suspicion of ‘faking it’ that sometimes surrounds.

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Author:   Brenda Jo Brueggemann (Ohio State University, USA) ,  Marian E. Lupo (Ohio State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780415448338

ISBN 10:   0415448336
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   21 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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;

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

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