Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
(Part of the Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series)
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's Richard III, Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in Geek Love.
David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Northern Michigan University. Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature, Northern Michigan University.
David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Northern Michigan University. Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature, Northern Michigan University.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0472067486
ISBN13:9780472067480
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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status quo at risk
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Narrative Prosthesis has been terrific in both my personal research as well as a supplemental text for an honors course in Disability Studies. The textual body and physical body are rife with meaning.
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