Placing Disability presents an international collection of personal
essays that address the experience of disability in particular
geographical locations. Each chapter engages the question of what
it means to be disabled in a specific place, exploring issues of
movement, work and play, community and activism, artistic
production, love and marriage, access and social services, family
and friendship, memory and aging—all informed by the places that
people inhabit. The book is organized in terms of topographies and
vistas, rather than being bound by the map, to emphasize the
defining, constitutive effects of place. The authors included in
Placing Disability hail from different countries, neighborhoods,
climates, and landscapes; from various backgrounds and professions;
from a range of disciplinary perspectives and strategies. They are
trained as academics, literary critics, poets, students, public
speakers, memoirists, educators, philosophers, administrators, and
activists. Their essays refine our understanding of the complex
dynamic between self and circumstance as they survey the impact of
geographical region on their life experiences. This book is
intended to be useful in creative-writing workshops, Disability
Studies seminars, and classes on environmental literature, and to
appeal to general readers of memoir as well as to scholars of
contemporary body theory or the Anthropocene.
General
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Series: |
Literary Disability Studies |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| First published: |
2024 |
| Editors: |
Susannah B. Mintz
• Gregory Fraser
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2024 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-141218-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-03-141218-4 |
| Barcode: |
9783031412189 |
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