Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

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University of Michigan Press, 2014 M05 21 - 232 páginas
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.

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Introduction Disability as Narrative Supplement
1
The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film
15
Chapter 2 Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor
47
Chapter 3 Montaignes Infinities of Formes and Nietzsches Higher Men
65
The Making and Unmaking of Richard III
95
Chapter 5 The Language of Prosthesis in MobyDick
119
Literary Contortions of the Disabled Body
141
Disability Representations in These Times
163
Notes
179
Works Cited
197
Index
207
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David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

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