Embodied rhetorics : disability in language and culture
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Embodied rhetorics : disability in language and culture
Southern Illinois University Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Presenting thirteen essays, editors James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson unite the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices. The contributors span a range of academic fields including English, education, history, and sociology. Several contributors are themselves disabled or have disabled family members. While some essays included in this volume analyze the ways that representations of disability construct identity and attitudes toward the disabled, other essays use disability as a critical modality to rethink economic theory, educational practices, and everyday interactions. Among the disabilities discussed are various physical disabilities, mental illness, learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, and diseases such as multiple sclerosis and AIDS.
Table of Contents
James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, "Disability, Rhetoric, and the Body" Martha Stoddard Holmes, "Working (with) the Rhetoric of Affliction" Catherine Prendergast, "On the Rhetorics of Mental Disability" Miriamne Ara Krummel, "Am I MS?" G. Thomas Couser, "Conflicting Paradigms" Nirmala Erevelles, "In Search of the Disabled Subject" Brenda Jo Brueggemann, "Deafness, Literacy, Rhetoric" Deshae E. Lott, "Going to Class with (Going to Clash with?) the Disabled Person" Hannah Joyner, "Signs of Resistance" Ellen L. Barton, "Textual Practices of Erasure" Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky, "Putting Disability in Its Place: It's Not a Joking Matter" Emily F. Nye, "The Rhetoric of AIDS" Beth Franks, "Gutting the Golden Goose"
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