7: A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler’s Die Wupper

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Negotiating Interpersonal Relationships: Historical Perspectives
6. 1: Inclusion, Emotion, and Disability 21
7. 2: “Moral Madness”: Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal History 44
8. 3: Deafness and “Disfigurement” as Relational Disorders: Aron Ronald Bodenheimer’s Psychotherapy at the Zurich School for the Deaf during the 1960s 66
9. Part II. Reckoning with the Past: Reconstruction of Memory
10. 4: The Romance of the Institution: Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the “Feebleminded” in Modern Germany 87
11. 5: From the Disability Murders Archive: Ernst Klee’s Confrontation of the Public with Nazism’s First Genocide 110
12. 6: Disability in Nazi Germany: Memory of “Euthanasia” Crimes and Commemoration of Their Victims 130
13. Part III. Intersections and Diversity: The Lens of Culture
14. 7: A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler’s Die Wupper 155
15. 8: Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas Bernhard 179
16. 9: Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities: Ulrike Ottinger’s Freak Orlando: Kleines Welttheater in fünf Episoden 198
17. 10: Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser’s Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis 219
18. Notes on the Contributors 241
19. Index 243