Disability and/in Prose

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 1 The Body's Moments, Helen Deutsch; Chapter 2 “[A]ll in Me is Nature”, Kathleen James-Cavan; Chapter 3 Duncan Campbell and the Discourses of Deafness, Christopher Krentz; Chapter 4, Sally Hayward; Chapter 5 Reading a Life between the Lines Thérèse-Adéle Husson's reflections on blindness, Georgina Kleege; Chapter 6 Cripple, Soldier, Crippled Soldier, William Etter; Chapter 7 Phantom Pains, Brenda M. Boyle; Chapter 8 Between the Valley and the Field, Jay Dolmage; Chapter 9 Fixated on Ability, Vivian M. May, Beth A. Ferri; Chapter 10 Disability as Metaphor: What's wrong with Lying, G. Thomas Couser; Chapter 11 Walt Whitman's “Specimen Days” and the Discovery of the Disability Memoir, Stephen Kuusisto; Chapter 12 Reading Me/Me Reading Disability, Mark Sherry; Chapter 13 Becoming Svämï, Kristina Torres; Chapter 14 (Im)Patient, Lynn Z. Bloom;