1st Edition

Disability and/in Prose

Edited By Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Marian E. Lupo Copyright 2008
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    Through a series of critical essays this book concerns itself with the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". The critical and/or personal essays in this book all try to explore this potent inbetween space – a place full of possibilities. These prose pieces reflect on prose themselves as they stretch in an uneven yet interesting line from Hay’s ‘modern’ essay on deformity through nineteenth century literary and cultural sensibilities about working bodies, wars and "normalcy" and also through contemporary considerations over the role of metaphor as it marks the disabled body in critical-creative "personal" essays that pose even as they prose the considerable possibilities for disability as represented in and through prose.

    This book was first published a special issue of Prose Studies.

    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;

    Biography

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