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What it Means to Be Literate - A Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy after Aphasia (Hardcover)
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What it Means to Be Literate - A Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy after Aphasia (Hardcover)
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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Disability and literacy are often understood as incompatible.
Disability is taken to be a sign of illiteracy, and illiteracy to
be a sign of disability. These oppositions generate damaging
consequences for disabled students (and those labeled as such) who
are denied full literacy education and for nonliterate adults who
are perceived as lacking intelligence, knowledge, and ability. What
It Means to Be Literate turns attention to disabled writers
themselves, exposing how the cultural oppositions between
disability and literacy affect how people understand themselves as
literate and even as fully human. Drawing on interviews with
individuals who have experienced strokes and brain injuries causing
the language disability aphasia, Elisabeth L. Miller argues for the
importance of taking a disability materiality approach to literacy
that accounts for the embodied, material experiences of disabled
people writing and reading. This approach reveals how aphasic
writers’ literate practices may reinscribe, challenge, or even
exceed scripts around the body in literacy (how brains, hands,
eyes, mouths, voice boxes, and more operate to make reading and
writing happen) as well as what and how spaces, activities, tools,
and materials matter in literate practice. Miller pushes for a
deeper understanding of how individuals’ specific bodies always
matter for literate practice and identity, enabling researchers to
better account for, and counter, ableist literate norms.
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Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Composition, Literacy, and Culture |
Release date: |
December 2022 |
Authors: |
Elisabeth Miller
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
188 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8229-4723-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
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LSN: |
0-8229-4723-4 |
Barcode: |
9780822947233 |
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