ABSTRACT

Through a series of critical essays this book concerns the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". It covers a diverse range from the role of the disability memoir, the effect of disablement on soldiers, phantom limb syndrome and the suspicion of ‘faking it’ that sometimes surrounds.

chapter |16 pages

The Body's Moments

Visible disability, the essay and the limits of sympathy

chapter |12 pages

“[A]ll in Me is Nature”

The values of deformity in William Hay's Deformity: An Essay

chapter |13 pages

Cripple, Soldier, Crippled Soldier

Alfred Bellard's Civil War memoir

chapter |15 pages

Phantom Pains

Disability, masculinity and the normal in Vietnam war representations

chapter |12 pages

Between the Valley and the Field

Metaphor and disability

chapter |21 pages

Fixated on Ability

Questioning Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Theories of Resistance

chapter |10 pages

(Im)Patient