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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.
Love Affair in the Garden of Milton interweaves the private story
of a marriage coming apart with readings of John Milton's poetry
and prose. Connected essays chart the chaos of loss and the
discovery of how a writer can inhabit our emotional as well as our
intellectual selves. Inflected by the principles of mindfulness,
Susannah B. Mintz's memoir explores how we reconstruct ourselves
and find our way back to meaning in the aftermath of trauma.
Formally inventive and engaging dynamic philosophical ideas, Love
Affair in the Garden of Milton raises questions of forgiveness,
desire, identity, grief, and the counterintuitive relevance of
literary tradition. This lyric memoir offers readers a sense of
partnership, with the author and Milton as companionable guides
through the wilds of love and loss.
The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores
representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest
days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B.
Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness,
deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder,
addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide
range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories
and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such
as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as
Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities
have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been
discussed in contemporary criticism.
The first critical study of personal narrative by women with
disabilities, ""Unruly Bodies"" examines how contemporary writers
use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about
disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. Combining the
analyses of disability and feminist theories, Susannah Mintz
discusses the work of eight American autobiographers: Nancy Mairs,
Lucy Grealy, Georgina Kleege, Connie Panzarino, Eli Clare, Anne
Finger, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and May Sarton. Mintz shows that by
refusing inspirational rhetoric or triumph-over-adversity narrative
patterns, these authors insist on their disabilities as a core -
but not diminishing - aspect of identity. They offer candid
portrayals of shame and painful medical procedures, struggles for
the right to work or to parent, the inventive joys of disabled sex,
the support and the hostility of family, and the losses and rewards
of aging. Mintz demonstrates how these unconventional stories
challenge feminist idealizations of independence and self-control
and expand the parameters of what counts as a life worthy of both
narration and political activism. ""Unruly Bodies"" also suggests
that atypical life stories can redefine the relation between
embodiment and identity generally.
The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores
representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest
days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B.
Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness,
deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder,
addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide
range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories
and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such
as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as
Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities
have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been
discussed in contemporary criticism.
"Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body" examines the
strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain, drawing on
a diverse range of literary texts from the seventeenth century to
the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides readings of canonical
writers including John Donne, Emily Dickinson, and Samuel Beckett,
alongside contemporary writers such as Ana Castillo and Margaret
Edson, focusing on how pain is shaped according to the
conventions-and also experiments-of genre: poetry, memoir, drama,
and fiction. With insights from disability theory and recent
studies of the language of pain, Mintz delivers an important
corrective to our most basic fears of physical suffering, revealing
through literature that pain can be a source of connection,
compassion, artistry, and knowledge. Not only an important
investigation of authors' formal and rhetorical choices, "Hurt and
Pain" reveals how capturing pain in literature can become a
fundamental component of crafting human experience.
Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body examines the
strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain, drawing on
a diverse range of literary texts from the seventeenth century to
the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides readings of canonical
writers including John Donne, Emily Dickinson, and Samuel Beckett,
alongside contemporary writers such as Ana Castillo and Margaret
Edson, focusing on how pain is shaped according to the
conventions-and also experiments-of genre: poetry, memoir, drama,
and fiction. With insights from disability theory and recent
studies of the language of pain, Mintz delivers an important
corrective to our most basic fears of physical suffering, revealing
through literature that pain can be a source of connection,
compassion, artistry, and knowledge. Not only an important
investigation of authors' formal and rhetorical choices, Hurt and
Pain reveals how capturing pain in literature can become a
fundamental component of crafting human experience.
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