The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity Contributor(s): Berger, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814725309 ISBN-13: 9780814725306 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Social Science | People With Disabilities |
Dewey: 616.855 |
LCCN: 2013049127 |
Series: Cultural Front (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 7.05" W x 8.96" (0.81 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
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Publisher Description: Language is integral to our modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical tension, as society confronts the needs and desires of "the least of its brothers." Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable in the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the prevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as disability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures reveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Berger, James: - James Berger is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He is author of After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse (1999) and a book of poetry, Prior (2013). He is the editor of Helen Keller's The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition (2003). |