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Disability and the Environment in American Literature : Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ecocritical Theory and Practice SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (188 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498513982
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disability and the Environment in American LiteratureDDC classification:
  • 810.9355
LOC classification:
  • PN98.E36 .D573 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature -- Chapter One: Claiming the Land -- Chapter Two: Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia? -- Chapter Three: Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited -- Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture -- Chapter Four: Frank Miller's Daredevil -- Chapter Five: Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature -- Chapter Six: The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books -- Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places -- Chapter Seven: "The Whole Imprisoning Wasteland Beyond" -- Chapter Eight: A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: The essays in Disability and the Environment in American Literature contribute new insights into the fields of literary disability studies and ecocriticism by placing the two fields in dialogue. The book offers readings of American literary narratives of place that expose the deep relationship between embodiment and emplacement and that explore the ways in which a scrutiny of this relationship might open up our understanding of disability.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature -- Chapter One: Claiming the Land -- Chapter Two: Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia? -- Chapter Three: Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited -- Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture -- Chapter Four: Frank Miller's Daredevil -- Chapter Five: Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature -- Chapter Six: The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books -- Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places -- Chapter Seven: "The Whole Imprisoning Wasteland Beyond" -- Chapter Eight: A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives -- Index -- About the Contributors.

The essays in Disability and the Environment in American Literature contribute new insights into the fields of literary disability studies and ecocriticism by placing the two fields in dialogue. The book offers readings of American literary narratives of place that expose the deep relationship between embodiment and emplacement and that explore the ways in which a scrutiny of this relationship might open up our understanding of disability.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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