Disability Studies And The Classical Body
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Disability Studies and the Classical Body
Author | : Ellen Adams |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000381382 |
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By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people are the ‘forgotten other’ of not just Classics, but also the Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this neglect, this book also provides a series of approaches and case studies that demonstrate the intellectual value of engaging with disability studies as classicists and exploring the classical legacy in the medical humanities. The book is presented in four parts: ‘Communicating and controlling impairment, illness and pain’; ‘Using, creating and showcasing disability supports and services’; ‘Real bodies and retrieving senses: disability in the ritual record’; and ‘Classical reception as the gateway between Classics and disability studies’. Chapters by scholars from different academic backgrounds are carefully paired in these sections in order to draw out further contrasts and nuances and produce a sum that is more than the parts. The volume also explores how the ancient world and its reception have influenced medical and disability literature, and how engagements with disabled people might lead to reinterpretations of familiar case studies, such as the Parthenon. This book is primarily intended for classicists interested in disabled people in the Greco-Roman past and in how modern disability studies may offer insights into and reinterpretations of historic case studies. It will also be of interest to those working in medical humanities, sensory studies, and museum studies, and those exploring the wider tension between representation and reality in ancient contexts. As such, it will appeal to people in the wider Humanities who, notwithstanding any interest in how disabled people are represented in literature, art, and cinema, have had less engagement with disability studies and the lived experience of people with impairments. FREE CHAPTER AVAILABLE! Please go to https://bit.ly/3pzpO7n to access the Introduction, which we have made freely available.
The Staff of Oedipus
Author | : Martha L. Rose |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2013-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472035731 |
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Exposes centuries-old disability myths that still survive today
Disability and Contemporary Performance
Author | : Petra Kuppers |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781136500404 |
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Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.
The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art
Author | : Ann Millett-Gallant |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-09-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780230109971 |
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This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show.
Disabilities in Roman Antiquity
Author | : Christian Laes,Chris Goodey,M. Lynn Rose |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2013-05-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9789004251250 |
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This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was culturally viewed or assessed.
Disability in Antiquity
Author | : Christian Laes |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317231547 |
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This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round. Disability in Antiquity is the first multidisciplinary volume to truly map out and explore the topic of disability in the ancient world and create new avenues of thought and research.
Different Bodies
Author | : Marja Evelyn Mogk |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2013-10-04 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780786465354 |
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This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France. The essays are divided into two parts. The first includes critical readings of narrative film and television. The second includes contributions on documentaries, biopics and autobiographically-informed films. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies while also contributing significantly to the field. An introduction gives background on disability studies and appendices provide a filmography and a list of suggested reading.
The Body and Physical Difference
Author | : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Eugenics |
ISBN | : 0472066595 |
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Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality