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Disability Studies and the Classical Body - The Forgotten Other (Hardcover)
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Disability Studies and the Classical Body - The Forgotten Other (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient Disabilities
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By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and
disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that
reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice
to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people
are the 'forgotten other' of not just Classics, but also the
Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this
neglect, this book also provides a series of approaches and case
studies that demonstrate the intellectual value of engaging with
disability studies as classicists and exploring the classical
legacy in the medical humanities. The book is presented in four
parts: 'Communicating and controlling impairment, illness and
pain'; 'Using, creating and showcasing disability supports and
services'; 'Real bodies and retrieving senses: disability in the
ritual record'; and 'Classical reception as the gateway between
Classics and disability studies'. Chapters by scholars from
different academic backgrounds are carefully paired in these
sections in order to draw out further contrasts and nuances and
produce a sum that is more than the parts. The volume also explores
how the ancient world and its reception have influenced medical and
disability literature, and how engagements with disabled people
might lead to reinterpretations of familiar case studies, such as
the Parthenon. This book is primarily intended for classicists
interested in disabled people in the Greco-Roman past and in how
modern disability studies may offer insights into and
reinterpretations of historic case studies. It will also be of
interest to those working in medical humanities, sensory studies,
and museum studies, and those exploring the wider tension between
representation and reality in ancient contexts. As such, it will
appeal to people in the wider Humanities who, notwithstanding any
interest in how disabled people are represented in literature, art,
and cinema, have had less engagement with disability studies and
the lived experience of people with impairments. FREE CHAPTER
AVAILABLE! Please go to https://bit.ly/3pzpO7n to access the
Introduction, which we have made freely available.
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