Raussert / Essifi Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’

21st-Century ‘American’ Perspectives
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-137975-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 279 Seiten

Reihe: ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and Students of Literary and Cultural Studies, Global He

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raussert, Wilfried

Essifi, Sarah-Lena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Wilfried Raussert;Sarah-Lena Essifi, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland.

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