Culture - Theory - Disability : Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies / ed. by Hanjo Berressem, Anne Waldschmidt, Moritz Ingwersen. - 1. Aufl. - Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017] ©2017 - 1 online resource (270 p.) - Disability Studies. Körper - Macht - Differenz ; 10 .

Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Culture - Theory - Disability -- Introducing ... -- Disability Goes Cultural -- The Sounds of Disability -- Contacting ... -- The Ghettoization of Disability -- Building a World with Disability in It -- No Future for Crips -- Encountering ... -- Dis/entangling Critical Disability Studies -- Disability, Pain, and the Politics of Minority Identity -- Border Crossings -- Superhumans-Parahumans -- Disability Studies Reads the Romance -- The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip -- Notes on Contributors

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Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum.This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy.It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick.


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In English.

9783839425336

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Culture--Study and teaching.
Disability studies.
Body Theory.
Disability Studies.
Literature.
Media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.

Cultural Studies. Cultural Theory. Culture. Disability Studies.

HV1568.2 HV1568

305.908