Narrative Prosthesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative Prosthesis write by David T. Mitchell. This book was released on 2014-05-21. Narrative Prosthesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Body and Physical Difference
The Body and Physical Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Body and Physical Difference write by David T. Mitchell. This book was released on 1997. The Body and Physical Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality
Prosthesis
Prosthesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prosthesis write by David Wills. This book was released on 1995. Prosthesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prosthesis is an experiment in critical writing that both analyzes and performs certain questions about the body as an "artificial" construction. The book deals with the mechanical (e.g., a mechanical prosthesis like a father's artificial leg) in that most humanistic of discourses, the artistic - in order to demonstrate to what extent a supposedly natural creation relies on artificial devices of various kinds. It is distinguished from a thematics of the prosthetic in literature by its complex articulation with accounts of the amputee father's discomfort, slipping back and forth between an apparently constative and a more obviously performative mode, in and out of fiction and autobiography. Cutting across the terrains occupied traditionally by the history of medicine, film studies, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and fiction, it finds an artistic or cultural pretext for each of its expositions - a line from Virgil, a painting by Conder, a theory by Freud, a film by Greenaway, a text by Derrida, novels by Roussel or Gibson, a sixteenth-century rhetoric - that connects thematically or theoretically with the question of prosthesis.
The Biopolitics of Disability
The Biopolitics of Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Biopolitics of Disability write by David T. Mitchell. This book was released on 2015-06-02. The Biopolitics of Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art
Cultural Locations of Disability
Cultural Locations of Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Locations of Disability write by Sharon L. Snyder. This book was released on 2010-01-26. Cultural Locations of Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.
