...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...

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

... 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...

... gesturing toward the Asian origins this study has been at pains to disable. It seems to me that a study shaped by Gilroy's transatlantic inquiry may be especially amenable to an extension into the United Kingdom and the Caribbean, and it is my hope that scholars inspired by Diasporic Poetics will take...

... . 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...

... of African American families (thirty at any one time and almost fifty in total) since January 1997. Many of the families have been in the study for more than ten years, and some have been with us since we first began. These families have children with a range of illnesses and disabilities — all chronic...

... 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...

... “the many dangers encountered outside the home range of any territorial species” (Marks and Nesse 1994, 251). Other terms for this phobia are “overactive threat detection” and “adaptive anxiety- production systems,” evoking the mind- as- technology paradigm again. Such responses have become disabling...

... 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...

... librarian of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama from 1924 through 1958. Delaney viewed the library as a tool for assisting physically and mentally disabled African American men "in [their] upward struggle to lay aside prejudice, all sense of defeat, and to take in that which...

... could this happen to me For example, one client came into therapy for help in dealing with a child’s recent diagnosis of a future long- term disability. Not only was there the loss of the promise of a healthy future adult child but there also was the dilemma of whether to, when to, and how...