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Author:   Susannah B. Mintz ,  Gregory Fraser
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031412189

ISBN 10:   3031412184
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   20 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; Susannah B. Mintz and Gregory Fraser.- 2. Disability and Memoir; G. Thomas Couser.- 3. Disability and Space; Rob Imrie.- Part 1: Into the Wide Open.- 4. Learning the Camino Real—Disability and the Desert; Sheila Black.- 5. Headlamps and Fireside Light; Rachel Kolb.- 6. A Sense of Place and Cyberspace: The Hybrid Way I Live, Work, and Play; Gyasi Burks-Abbott.- 7. Ad Astra Per Aspera (To the Stars Through Difficulties); Brenda Jo Brueggemann.- Part 2: Metro-Geographies.- 8. Peaks and Valleys: A Collaborative Essay about Disability in the Bronx; Annette Serrano, Cindy Hernandez, Andrew Whyte, Sonia Gonzalez, Jovan Campbell, and Mary Morfe (with an introduction by Julia Miele Rodas).- 9. Blindness and Dyslexia in the Movements of Everyday Life in Toronto; Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky.- 10. Disability in New York City Schools and Preparing Teachers to Work in Them; Laurie Rabinowitz.- 11. Drenched Lands, Blood Compost: Disability, Land, and the Asylum Project; Petra Kuppers.- Part 3: Liminal (Dis)locations.- 12. A Tide in the River: Auditory Ecologies of Dyarubbin; Nicole Matthews.- 13. Hydra, New Hampshire; Stephen Kuusisto.- 14. Between Places; Leigh A. Neithardt.- 15. The Lie of the Land; Annmaree Watharow.- 16. Body Workers; Ellen Samuels.- 17. Never in one Place: On Waking in a Different Body; Anand Prahlad.

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Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College. Her books include the memoir Love Affair in the Garden of Milton (2021) and four scholarly volumes on disability and literature. She is also the co-editor of four collections of work on disability issues, including Disability Experiences (2019, with G. Thomas Couser). Gregory Fraser is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Little Armageddon (2021), and co-author of two writing textbooks. Fraser’s poetry has appeared in journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares. He is the recipient of several awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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