Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

by Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell

Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472067486
• ISBN13: 9780472067480
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

status quo at risk

Narrative Prosthesis has been terrific in both my personal research as well as a supplemental text for an honors course in Disability Studies. The textual body and physical body are rife with meaning.