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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
“[A]ll in Me is Nature”
The values of deformity in William Hay's Deformity: An Essay
chapter |15 pages
Phantom Pains
Disability, masculinity and the normal in Vietnam war representations
chapter |21 pages
Fixated on Ability
Questioning Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Theories of Resistance