Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and CultureJames C. Wilson, Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson 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. Bringing together theoretical and analytical perspectives from rhetorical studies and disability studies, these essays extend both the field of rhetoric and the newer field of disability studies.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 within these contexts are various physical disabilities, mental illness, learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, and diseases such as multiple sclerosis and AIDS. |
Contents
Disability Rhetoric and the Body | 1 |
Identity and Rhetoricity The DisAbled Subject | 25 |
Working with the Rhetoric of Affliction Autobiographical Narratives of Victorians with Physical Disabilities | 27 |
On the Rhetorics of Mental Disability | 45 |
Am I MS? | 61 |
Conflicting Paradigms The Rhetorics of Disability Memoir | 78 |
In Search of the Disabled Subject | 92 |
Rhetorics of Literacy Education and Disability | 113 |
Signs of Resistance Deaf Perspectives on Linguistic Conflict in a NineteenthCentury Southern Family | 154 |
Cultural and Spatial Rhetorics of Disability | 167 |
Textual Practices of Erasure Representations of Disability and the Founding of the United Way | 169 |
Putting Disability in Its Place Its Not a Joking Matter | 200 |
The Rhetoric of AIDS A New Taxonomy | 229 |
Gutting the Golden Goose Disability in Grimms Fairy Tales | 244 |
Contributors | 261 |
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Deafness Literacy Rhetoric Legacies of Language and Communication | 115 |
Going to Class with Going to Clash with? the Disabled Person Educators Students and Their Spoken and Unspoken Negotiations | 135 |
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