Literature and disability / / Alice Hall.

• Superior document: Literature and Contemporary Thought
• VerfasserIn: Hall, Alice (Literature professor),
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1 ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Literature and Contemporary Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most...

Table of Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editors' Preface; 1. Disability Studies Now; Disability Demands a Story; Definitions: Disability at a Critical Juncture; Technologies of Writing and the Body; The Structure of the Book; Further Reading; Bibliography; 2. An Introduction to Disability Studies; Early Activism: Social Campaigns and Environmental Barriers; The Medical and Social Models; The Rise of Disability Studies as a Discipline; Beyond Binaries: New Challenges for Disability Theory; Further Reading; Useful Links; Bibliography
• 3. Literature and DisabilityThe Cultural Model and the Rise of "Literary Disability Studies"; Empathy; Disability and Metaphor; Intersectionality; Disability and Feminism; Queer Theory; Disability and Postcolonial Theory; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 4. Physical Disability and the Novel; Historicising Disability and the Novel; Narrative Prosthesis; Care, Dependency and Coetzee's Slow Man; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 5. Deafness and Performance; Definitions; Deafness as a Critical Metaphor and Modality; Further Reading; Bibliography
• 6. Blindness and the Short StoryBlindness and Literary Tradition; The Language of Blindness; Embodied Sightlessness; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 7. Cognitive Difference and Narrative; Labelling Cognitive Impairment; The Sound and the Fury: Memory and Multisensory Narrative; Autism as Metaphor: The Curious Incident of the Dogin the Night-Time; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 8. Disability Life Writing; Autobiography and Activism: The Roots of Disability Life Writing; The Literary Memoir and the "Coming Out" Narrative