...Jeremy Colangelo Although disability studies researchers have long recognized the interdependence of ability and disability as socially mediated categories, few studies have taken the next logical step of examining how ability is constructed and represented in literary texts. This article pursues...

... metaphor as shorthand for them. Metaphors and narratives can suggest reductive or stereotypical ways of imagining illness, disability, and other experiences of embodiment. However, rather than attempting to limit the metaphoric framing of illness, we should work to confer the agency to make metaphors...

... to avoid euphemisms that mislead. It's a semisatisfactory answer temporarily. But doesn't this measured reply sabotage the whole enterprise? Michael Snediker has been paying attention to our equivocations on this subject in the medical humanities and disability theory. His latest book, Contingent...

... example for the last chapter, that of Jasbir Puar, whose 2017 monograph The Right to Maim denounced the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act—an act that mandated employment rights for the disabled, and so enfranchised millions—on the grounds that it “uses capitalist logic to solve a problem largely...

... with lingering questions, resulting in an awkward or unstable aesthetic experience for audiences Copyright © 2018 by University of Oklahoma 2018 William Shakespeare Erving Goffman Erich Auerbach Richard III stigma disability ...

... contextual, and they speak to Porter’s relationship to her own body of work as well as to more general theoretical concerns about authorship and genre. Porter’s “He” revolves around the economically declining Whipple family and their nameless disabled son (only ever referred to by pronouns: “He...

... for Wittgenstein and is part of his effort to dislodge the philosophical tendency to treat all sentences as though they were propositions describing states of affairs (what Austin would call "constative utterances This critical displacement of a deeply embedded but disabling logi- cal paradigm (cf. remark...

...—that is, to refer primarily to people of South Asian descent” (21). Hiving off the United Kingdom has the effect of exposing the East Asian—indeed, largely Northeast Asian—ethnicity of Yu's chosen poets, thus gesturing toward the Asian origins this study has been at pains to disable. It seems to me that a study...

... . The Answer is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World . New York : Grove Press , 2002 . Whittaker Tom Dodd Johnny . Higher Purpose: The Heroic Story of the First Disabled Man to Conquer Everest . Washington, D.C. : Lifeline Press , 2001 . Williams Terry Tempest...

... to cover a $90,000 bill for his newborn because the insurance company regarded the baby’s cleft palate as a “preexisting disability As Congressman Steny Hoyer put it, “Every one of us has a story” (“Health Care Summit Transcript: Part 2” 2010). In 2011 societal costs (and taxes) have regained...

... . Ferguson Rex . 2013 . Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel: Experience on Trial . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Flint Kate . 2006 . “Disability and Difference.” In The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins , edited by Taylor Jenny Bourne , 153 – 67 . Cambridge...

... is predominantly viewed as the “absence of disease” and as “func- tional fitness.” •   Health services are geared mainly toward treating sick and disabled  people. •   A high value is put on the provision of specialist medical services in  mainly institutional settings, typically...

.... These families have children with a range of illnesses and disabilities — all chronic, all serious, some (as for this family) critical. By anthropological standards, this has been large- scale ethnography, car- ried out by a team of researchers rather than the lone ethnographer and funded by a series...

... for literature's new social marginality, that it is no longer “the principal means of achieving cultural distinction of the sort that once motivated the European bourgeoisie” (379). But the only reason this would be a disabling problem for the profession's social aims would be if the sole audience for literature...

... of repeating and repeating the jazz act to engen- der virtuosity in a material and ideological situation that disables that same cre- ative process. Going for Jazz explores these and other arguments in chapter-length case studies of three prominent musicians: Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker...

... of repeating and repeating the jazz act to engen- der virtuosity in a material and ideological situation that disables that same cre- ative process. Going for Jazz explores these and other arguments in chapter-length case studies of three prominent musicians: Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker...

... virtuosity in a material and ideological situation that disables that same cre- ative process. Going for Jazz explores these and other arguments in chapter-length case studies of three prominent musicians: Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, and Ornette Coleman. Gebhardt associates each...

...- as- technology paradigm again. Such responses have become disabling in the altered environment of modern society, where they no longer serve a pro- tective function but instead disrupt ordinary life. Clearly, with such an open- ended interpretive approach, any kind of fear disorder can be brought to heel...

... of repeating and repeating the jazz act to engen- der virtuosity in a material and ideological situation that disables that same cre- ative process. Going for Jazz explores these and other arguments in chapter-length case studies of three prominent musicians: Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker...

... of territory for industry and non-Native enterprises. Michael Dorris interprets the motivations behind this policy: It talked of giving Indians "equal rights" and of "freeing" them from "federal supervision and control and from all the disabilities and limitations specifically...