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[Readings: Licia Carlson, “The Human as Just an Other Animal: Madness, Disability, and Foucault’s Bestiary”; Kari Weil, “Killing Them Softly: Animal Death, Linguistic Disability, and the Struggle for Ethics”; Cary Wolfe, “Learning from Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject” from What is Posthumanism?] The last group of readings for […]
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Binaries and boundaries
[Readings: Elizabeth Grosz, “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit” from Freakery; Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Gender Systems: Toward a Theory of Human Sexuality” from Sexing the Body; Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” from The New Media Reader] The three writers that I discuss in this post — Elizabeth […]
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[Readings: Judith Butler, “Critically Queer” from Bodies that Matter; Robert McRuer, “Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence” from Crip Theory] The pair of readings that I discuss in this post both work to develop theories that address cultural expectations of compulsory heteronormativity. First, Judith Butler analyzes the reappropriation of the term “queer” by LGBT individuals […]
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[Reading: Shelley Tremain, “On the Subject of Impairment” from Marian Corker and Tom Shakespeare, eds., Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Studies] In her book chapter, Shelley Tremain analyzes “how the sort of biomedical practices in whose analysis Foucault specialized have been complicit in the historical emergence of the category of impairment and contribute to its persistence” (33-4). While […]
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Tags: "On the Subject of Impairment", biopower, disability studies, Foucault, postmodernity, regulatory control, Shelley Tremain
[Reading: Marian Corker and Tom Shakespeare, “Mapping the Terrain” from Marian Corker and Tom Shakespeare, eds., Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Studies] This week’s text, Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Studies, seeks to situate disability studies scholarship within various movements progressing from modernism to postmodernism, discuss key postmodern texts through which disability studies can develop, and reflect on the ways in […]
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[Readings: Tania Titchkosky, Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment; Rebecca Garden, “Disability and narrative: new directions for medicine and the medical humanities”] Texts never just get it right or get it wrong insofar as they are also a ‘doing’ — right or wrong, texts are always oriented social action, producing meaning. […]
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Tags: disability in print media, disability studies, governmentality, medicalization of disability, Reading and Writing Disability Differently, Tania Titchkosky, textual enactment
Continuing from my previous post (longer than expected — sorry!), I want to address Ato Quayson’s chapter “A Typology of Disability Representation” from his book Aesthetic Nervousness. This text seeks to read disability “as a fulcrum or pivot out of which various discursive details emerge, gain salience, and ultimately undergo transformation within the literary-aesthetic field” […]
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[Readings: David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, “Representation and its Discontents: The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film” from The Handbook of Disability Studies; Ato Quayson, “A Typology of Disability Representation” from Aesthetic Nervousness] Because disability in the real world already incites interpretation, literary representations of disability are not merely reflecting disability; they are refractions […]
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Tags: cultural construction of disability, development, disability studies, methodology, Mitchell and Snyder, negative imagery, new historicism
Continuing from my discussion of the readings below, specifically Simi Linton’s “Disability Studies/Not Disability Studies,” I thought I’d jot down some questions I have in relation to disability studies as a scholarly field. Linton suggests that nondisabled researchers in disability studies potentially, though not necessarily, pose a threat to the goals of “inclusion, self-determination, and […]
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Exploring Theories of Disability 