Overview

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. 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 are various physical disabilities, mental illness, learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, and diseases such as multiple sclerosis and AIDS.

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Author:   James Wilson ,  Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Edition:   3rd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780809323937

ISBN 10:   0809323931
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, ""Disability, Rhetoric, and the Body"" Martha Stoddard Holmes, ""Working (with) the Rhetoric of Affliction"" Catherine Prendergast, ""On the Rhetorics of Mental Disability"" Miriamne Ara Krummel, ""Am I MS?"" G. Thomas Couser, ""Conflicting Paradigms"" Nirmala Erevelles, ""In Search of the Disabled Subject"" Brenda Jo Brueggemann, ""Deafness, Literacy, Rhetoric"" Deshae E. Lott, ""Going to Class with (Going to Clash with?) the Disabled Person"" Hannah Joyner, ""Signs of Resistance"" Ellen L. Barton, ""Textual Practices of Erasure"" Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky, ""Putting Disability in Its Place: It's Not a Joking Matter"" Emily F. Nye, ""The Rhetoric of AIDS"" Beth Franks, ""Gutting the Golden Goose"""

Reviews

This is a needed book, with a much-needed focus...to further the argument put forth in disability studies that 'disability' is a socially-constructed label and that the material circumstances of 'disabled' people's lives are closely tied to 'non-disabled' society's construction of those lives. It also argues for the agency of the disabled: for their right to speak for themselves. - Patricia A. Dunn, author of Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies

Author Information

James C. Wilson is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and the author of Vietnam in Prose and Film, John Reed for the Masses, and The Hawthorne and Melville Friendship. Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson is a professor of English at Miami University and the author of Writing Against the Family: Gender in Lawrence and Joyce, and From Community to College: Reading and Writing Across Diverse Contexts.

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