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Edinburgh German Yearbook 4
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Volume 4 focuses on disability in German literature, film, and theater. Disability Studies is part of a broader discussion of difference and "otherness," the politics of identity, social processes, human rights, ethics, and discrimination. As a critical resistance strategy, it seeks to retrieve the silenced voices of disabled figures from literature, film, and theater and discuss their position vis-à-vis "normalcy." Recently, Disability Studies has explored the binary construction of "able" and "disabled," strategies of exclusion, and the marginalization and suffering of the disabled body under social and medical structures. The field is now entering a phase of positive reflection, addressing the ontological politics of disability. Accordingly, this volume examines cultural representations of disability that raise questions about "the humane gaze" and posits disability as historically central to discussions of humanity, modernity, and social and moral behavior in German-language literature, film, and theater. Points of focus include blindness, physical deformity, injury, illness, and euthanasia, and topics dealt with are the humanizing and (de-)re-humanizing gazes; the experience of the modern condition and the discourse of disability; the social and cultural construction of representations of the disabled body; stigma; and the effects of inclusion and exclusion strategies.
Eleoma Joshua is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Michael Schillmeier lectures in Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Disability Studies, and Empirical Philosophy at the Department of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.
Product details
Number of Pages:
246
Release Date:
2010-10-01
Publication Date:
2010-10-01
Publisher:
Camden House
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
157113428X
ISBN13:
9781571134288
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
555 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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