Disability Writing

Anita Wohlmann

Disability Writing

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Abstract

This special issue on disability directs its analytical and critical focus to how the key questions of disability studies can be transferred to literary studies and how disability studies as an academic field – while shedding light on the literary and cultural construction of normalcy and otherness and the means by which disability is created and reconstructed in literature – can embrace and enrich other theoretical frameworks.

Original language	English

Publisher	De Gruyter
Number of pages	105
Publication status	Published - Mar 2019

Series	Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Number	1
Volume	67
ISSN	0044-2305

Bibliographical note

Table of Contents

1) “Narrating Disability in Literature and Visual Media: Introduction" by Anita Wohlmann and Marion Rana
2) “Relocating the Freak Show: Disability in the Medical Drama” by Gesine Wegner
3) “Writing Disability/Disabling Writing: ET Russian and the Fragmentation of Texts and Textures” by Olga Tarapata
4) “Towards a Science of the Self: Autism, Autobiography and Animal Behavior in Temple Grandin’s Animals in Translation” by Mita Banerjee
5) “Deafness and Ethnic Identity: The Idea of a Deaf State and its Resonances with American Exceptionalism and Frontier Ideology” by Marion Rana

Keywords

disability studies
Literature and Cultural Studies

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