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The Disarticulate - Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity (Hardcover)
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The Disarticulate - Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Front
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Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of
those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, "wild"
children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as
well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences,
have all engaged with language from a position at its borders. In
the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the
'disarticulate'-those at the edges of language-have, paradoxically,
played essential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate
figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and
the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others,
James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these
characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical,
political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. It is also
the place of the greatest ethical tension, as society confronts the
needs and desires of "the least of its brothers." Berger argues
that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable in the
discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the
prevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well
as disability and trauma theory, he examines how these
disarticulate figures reveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how
it constructs its others.
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