Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities

by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Sharon L. Snyder

Book Overview

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's introduction notes, "the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary culture." The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society.

Edited and introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873529812
• ISBN13: 9780873529815
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"