Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture

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James C. Wilson, Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
SIU Press, 2001 - Language and culture - 270 pages
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
Index
265

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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