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Author:   Linda Leskau ,  Tanja Nusser (Customer) ,  Katherine Katherine Sorrels (Customer) ,  Markus Dederich
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781640141087

ISBN 10:   1640141081
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   14 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Disability Studies in German-Speaking Europe, an Introduction Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels Part 1: Negotiating Interpersonal Relationships: Historical Perspectives 1: Inclusion, Emotion, and Disability Markus Dederich and Katherine Sorrels 2: ""Moral Madness"": Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal History Ashley L. Elrod 3: Deafness and ""Disfigurement"" as Relational Disorders: Aron Ronald Bodenheimer's Psychotherapy at the Zurich School for the Deaf during the 1960s Marion Schmidt Part 2: Reckoning with the Past: Reconstruction of Memory 4: The Romance of the Institution: Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the ""Feeble-Minded"" in Modern Germany Warren Rosenblum 5: From the Disability Murders Archive: Ernst Klee's Confrontation of the Public with Nazism's First Genocide Dagmar Herzog 6: Disability in Nazi Germany: Memory of ""Euthanasia"" Crimes and Commemoration of Their Victims Lutz Kaelber Part 3: Intersections and Diversity: The Lens of Culture 7: A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler's Die Wupper Caroline Weist 8: Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas Bernhard Linda Leskau 9: Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities: Ulrike Ottinger's Freak Orlando: Kleines Welttheater in fünf Episoden Tanja Nusser 10: Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser's Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis Waltraud Maierhofer Notes on the Contributors Index"

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Offering a taste of various disciplines' perspectives on disability, this book would be a good choice for the undergraduate classroom. The comparative approach of the introduction and of some of the articles will be most useful for the direction for German disability studies. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *

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LINDA LESKAU is Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit) at TU Dortmund University. TANJA NUSSER is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. KATHERINE SORRELS is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.

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