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Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities
Edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann,
and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher: Modern Language Association (2002)
386 pages
Hardcover: 9780873529815
Paperback: 9780873529808
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Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as sex was in the Victorian world, the ubiquitous unspoken topic in today's culture. The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society. Containing an afterword by Michael Bérubé (author of Life As We Know It), the volume is rich in its cast of characters (including Oliver Sacks, Dr. Kevorkian, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Nero Wolfe), its powerful, authentic accounts of disabled conditions (deafness, blindness, MS, cancer, the absence of limbs), its different settings (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, Nazi Germany, modern America), and in its mix of the intellectual and the emotional, of subtle theory and plainspoken autobiography.