Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’: 21st-Century ‘American’ Perspectives

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Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’

21st-Century ‘American’ Perspectives

Edited by: Wilfried Raussert and Sarah-Lena Essifi

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 10 | American Frictions

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Fostering a dialog between Critical Disability Studies, American Studies, InterAmerican Studies, and Global Health Studies, the edited compilation conceptualizes disability and (mental) illnesses as a cultural narrative enabling a deeper social critique. By looking at contemporary cultural productions primarily from the USA, Canada, and the Caribbean, the books’ objective is to explore how literary texts and other cultural productions from the Americas conceptualize, construct, and represent disability as a narrative and to investigate the deep structures underlying the literary and cultural discourses on and representations of disability including parameters such as disease, racism, and sexism among others. Disability is read as a shifting phenomenon rooted in the cultures and histories of the Americas.

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Wilfried Raussert; Sarah-Lena Essifi, Bielefeld University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’: Twenty-First Century ‘American’ Perspectives Wilfried Raussert and Sarah-Lena Essifi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Disability and Life Narratives
Life Writing, Writing Life: Autobiography, Neoliberalism, and Disability in Mitchell Levitz’s and Jason Kingsley’s Count Us In Mita Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Reflecting ‘Disability’: Illness and Literary Diagnosis in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant (2007) Wilfried Raussert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
“There’re two kinds of psychosis”: Mental Illness as Metaphor in the Worlds of Charlie Kaufman Melanie Kreitler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
When the System Fails – How Dementia Undermines the Cultural Narrative of the Mind Julia Andres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
Part II: Disability, Trauma, and Healing
“Ah can’t prevent it. Is in we blood.” Bodymind Expressions of Ancestral Trauma, Depression, and Healing in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s, Patsy (2019) Sarah-Lena Essifi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Transcending Trauma: Decolonial Feminist Healing in the Novels Birdie (2015) by Tracey Lindberg and The Break (2016) by Katharena Vermette Atalie Gerhard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Part III: Disability, Gender, and Intersectionality
Much-Needed Rest? Female Agency and the Rest Cure in Treatments of Depression in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation Diana Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
An Intersectional Reading of Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”: Exploring the Entanglements of Race, Gender, Class and Disability Manal Masri and Julia Roth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Deer Women: Cut in The Straight Story. An Ecofeminist Reading of Road Movies and Roads Mariya Nikolova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Part IV: Disability, Body-Ability, Eco-Ability, and Speciesism
Civil War “Supercrip”: John Smith’s Funny ??? Adventures as a One-Legged Soldier Kirsten Twelbeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
The Abilities of the Body: A Study from the Theater Diana Tada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Eco-Ability as Narrative Prosthesis: Narrating Disability along Ecocide and Environmental Resistance in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were Lakshmi chithra Dilipkumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Words Unspoken – Thinking about Intersections of Ableism and Speciesism Tabea Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267

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eBook published on:

November 18, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111379272

Hardcover published on:

November 18, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111379074

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

271

Illustrations:

4

Coloured Illustrations:

29

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111379272

eBook ISBN: 9783111379272

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111379074

Keywords for this book

Disability; Global Health and Illness Narratives; 21st Century ‘American’ Perspectives; Life Writing

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Scholars and Students of Literary and Cultural Studies, Global Health Studies, Transnational American & InterAmerican Studies

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