Disability and the environment in American literature toward an ecosomatic paradigm

• Main Author: Cella, Matthew J. C
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2016; Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Publishing USA; Lexington Books
• Edition: 1
• Series: Ecocritical theory and practice
• Subjects: American; American fiction; Ecocriticism; Ecology; LITERARY CRITICISM; NATURE; People with Disabilities; People with disabilities in literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE
• ISBN: 9781498513975; 1498513972; 1498513980; 9781498513982

This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained f...

Table of Contents:

• Disability and the environment in American literature: toward an ecosomatic paradigm -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Ecosomatic Paradigm and the American Environmental Imagination -- Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature -- One: Claiming the Land: Fictions of Wholeness in Hope Leslie -- Two: Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia?: Cross-Cultural Possibilities in Melville's Typee -- Three: Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited: Disability and Environmental Ethics in O Pioneers! -- Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture -- Four: Frank Miller's Daredevil: Blindness, the Urban Environment, and the Social Model of Disability -- Five: Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature -- Six: The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books -- Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places -- Seven: "The Whole Imprisoning Wasteland Beyond": Forces of Nature, Ableism, and Suburban Dis-ease in Midcentury Literature -- Eight: A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives -- Index -- About the Contributors.
• Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature -- Chapter One: Claiming the Land -- Chapter Two: Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia? -- Chapter Three: Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited -- Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture -- Chapter Four: Frank Miller's Daredevil -- Chapter Five: Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature -- Chapter Six: The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books -- Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places -- Chapter Seven: "The Whole Imprisoning Wasteland Beyond" -- Chapter Eight: A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives -- Index -- About the Contributors