Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, Culture
Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Ort:
Rochester
Date:
2022
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture.
Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Negotiating Interpersonal Relationships: Historical Perspectives -- 1: Inclusion, Emotion, and Disability -- 2: "Moral Madness": Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal Histo -- 3: Deafness and "Disfigurement" as Relational Disorders: Aron Ronald Bodenheimer's Psychotherapy a -- Part II. Reckoning with the Past: Reconstruction of Memory -- 4: The Romance of the Institution: Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the "Feebleminded" in -- 5: From the Disability Murders Archive: Ernst Klee's Confrontation of the Public with Nazism's First -- 6: Disability in Nazi Germany: Memory of "Euthanasia" Crimes and Commemoration of Their Victims -- Part III. Intersections and Diversity: The Lens of Culture -- 7: A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler's Die Wupper -- 8: Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas Bernhard -- 9: Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities: Ulrike Ottinger's Freak Orlando: Kleines Welttheater in fünf E -- 10: Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser's Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis -- Contributors -- Index.
Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Negotiating Interpersonal Relationships: Historical Perspectives -- 1: Inclusion, Emotion, and Disability -- 2: "Moral Madness": Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal Histo -- 3: Deafness and "Disfigurement" as Relational Disorders: Aron Ronald Bodenheimer's Psychotherapy a -- Part II. Reckoning with the Past: Reconstruction of Memory -- 4: The Romance of the Institution: Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the "Feebleminded" in -- 5: From the Disability Murders Archive: Ernst Klee's Confrontation of the Public with Nazism's First -- 6: Disability in Nazi Germany: Memory of "Euthanasia" Crimes and Commemoration of Their Victims -- Part III. Intersections and Diversity: The Lens of Culture -- 7: A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler's Die Wupper -- 8: Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas Bernhard -- 9: Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities: Ulrike Ottinger's Freak Orlando: Kleines Welttheater in fünf E -- 10: Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser's Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis -- Contributors -- Index.
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edited by Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels
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