Research Catalog

Title

Embodied rhetorics : disability in language and culture / edited by James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson.

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia.
• Wilson, James C., 1948-

Description

xiii, 270 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Language and culture
• Language and education
• People with disabilities > Education
• People with disabilities > Social conditions
• People with disabilities in literature
• People with disabilities in mass media
• Rhetoric

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Disability, rhetoric, and the body / James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson -- Working (with) the rhetoric of affliction: autobiographical narratives of Victorians with physical disabilities / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- On the rhetorics of mental disability / Catherine Prendergast -- Am I MS? / Miriamne Ara Krummel -- Conflicting paradigms: the rhetorics of disability memoir / G. Thomas Couser -- In search of the disabled subject / Nirmala Erevelles -- Deafness, literacy, rhetoric: legacies of language and communication / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Going to class with (going to clash with?) the disabled person: educators, students, and their spoken and unspoken negotiations / Deshae E. Lott -- Signs of resistance: deaf perspectives on linguistic conflict in a nineteenth-century southern family / Hannah Joyner -- Textual practices of erasure: representations of disability and the founding of the United Way / Ellen L. Barton -- Putting disability in its place: it's not a joking matter / Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky -- The rhetoric of AIDS: a new taxonomy / Emily F. Nye -- Gutting the golden goose: disability in Grimms' Fairy tales / Beth Franks.

ISBN

• 0809323931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0809323923 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00050473^

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Harvard Library