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Disability in German-Speaking Europe - History, Memory, Culture (Hardcover)
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Disability in German-Speaking Europe - History, Memory, Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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This collection reflects on the development of disability studies
in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary
perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history
and culture. Ableism remains the most socially acceptable form of
intolerance, with pejoratives referencing disability - and
intellectual disability in particular - remaining largely
unquestioned among many. Yet the understanding, depiction, and
representation of disability is also clearly in a process of
transformation. This volume analyzes that transformation, taking a
close look at attitudes toward disability in historical and
contemporary German-speaking contexts. The volume begins with an
overview of the emergence and growth of disability studies in
German-speaking Europe against the background of the field's
emergence a decade or so earlier in the US and UK. The differences
in timing, methodology, and research concentrations bring into
focus how each cultural context has shaped the field of disability
studies in its multiple and diverse approaches. Building on recent
scholarship that uses a cultural studies approach, the volume's
three sections analyze constructs of disability and ability in
history, memory, and culture. The essays in the history section
examine how the emotions, morality, and power have played into -
and still do play into - the individual's experience of disability.
Those in the memory section grapple with the origins of the Nazi
persecution of people with disabilities, the fight for recognition
of this genocide, and the politics of its commemoration. Finally,
the culture section offers close readings of disability in literary
and filmic texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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