Disability Rhetoric - Hardcover

Dolmage, Jay Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815633246 ISBN 13: 9780815633242

Verlag: Syracuse University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.

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Jay Timothy Dolmage is associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo. He is the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0815633246
• ISBN 13: 9780815633242
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 349
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