By Michael Davidson

"Professor Davidson---an complete literary critic---offers a targeted and balanced research of poetry, movie, and the humanities honed along with his very good wisdom of the most recent advances in incapacity reviews. he's great at interpreting texts in a cosmopolitan and aesthetically pleasing manner, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of many smartest books up to now in incapacity studies."
---Lennard Davis, collage of Illinois, Chicago

"Moving elegantly between social theorists and cultural texts, Davidson exemplifies and propels an ethical-aesthetic version for feedback. Davidson asks consistently and with a devoted depth 'where a incapacity ends and the social order starts' . . .  this publication brings the research of poetry and poetics into the twenty-first century."
---Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University

Concerto for the Left Hand is on the leading edge of the increasing box of incapacity experiences, supplying a variety of essays that examine the impression of incapacity throughout numerous paintings forms---including literature, functionality, images, and movie. instead of easily concentrating on the ways that disabled people are portrayed, Michael Davidson explores how the event of incapacity shapes the paintings of artists and why incapacity serves as an essential lens by which to interpret sleek tradition. protecting an eclectic variety of topics---from the phantom lacking limb in movie noir to the poetry of yank signal Language---this assortment promises a special and interesting evaluation of the interaction among incapacity and aesthetics.

Written in a fluid, obtainable type, Concerto for the Left Hand will attract either experts and common audiences. With its interdisciplinary strategy, this booklet may still allure not just to students of incapacity experiences yet to all these operating in minority artwork, deaf stories, visible tradition, and modernism.

Michael Davidson is Professor of yank Literature on the collage of California, San Diego. His different books contain Guys Like Us: bringing up Masculinity in chilly struggle Poetics and Ghostlier Demarcations: smooth Poetry and the fabric World.

Show description

Read or Download Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) PDF

Similar theater books

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

This better half is designed for readers drawn to the production, creation and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theater. An advent surveying the old interval of the theater is by way of an essay contextualizing it in the tradition as a complete. Succeeding chapters learn functionality and creation, (including tune, actors, stagecraft and audience), performs and playwriting and problems with classification and gender.

Critical Theory and Performance: Revised and Enlarged Edition (Theater: Theory Text Performance)

Serious concept and function offers a huge variety of serious and theoretical equipment and applies them to modern and old functionality genres—from degree performs, dance-dramas, functionality paintings, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, highway theater, and shamanistic ritual. because the first finished creation to serious theory’s wealthy and various contributions to the research of drama, theater, and function, the e-book has been hugely influential for greater than a decade in supplying fertile flooring for educational investigations within the full of life box of functionality stories.

The Fighting Art of Pencak Silat and Its Music: From Southeast Asian Village to Global Movement

Scuffling with arts have their very own good looks, inner philosophy, and are attached to cultural worlds in significant and significant methods. Combining methods from ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, functionality thought and anthropology, the distinguishing function of this booklet is that it highlights the centrality of the pluripotent paintings type of pencak silat between Southeast Asian arts and its significance to a community of conventional and smooth appearing arts in Southeast Asia and past.

Extra info for Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)

Sample text

In such cases, female, queer, and racialized bodies challenge categories of normalcy and expose the degree to which bodies are constructed within narratives about deviance, abjection, and differ­ ence. Given the importance of nontraditional bodies and sensoriums in cultural theory, it is surprising that disability is seldom mentioned within such venues. The reasons for this absence may be related to the impor­ tance of certain identity categories (race, class, gender, sexuality, and na­ tionhood) that have been the centerpieces of social movements and that dominate cultural studies and minority discourse.

Some sense of the imbricated relationship between cultural produc­ tion and disability can be seen in recent controversies over assisted sui­ cide. The case of Theresa Schiavo, a young Florida woman, who suffered severe neurological damage in 1990 and who remained in a coma for fifteen years, became the site of a culture war between civil libertarians, on the one hand, and an unlikely coalition of religious conservatives and dis­ ability rights advocates on the other. Similarly, critical response to films such as Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby and Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside has brought issues surrounding euthanasia and medical ethics into conflict with disability activists.

On the other side, critics of the Florida Department of Children and Families that sought to gain cus­ tody of Schiavo claimed that the neurologist from the Mayo Clinic hired to evaluate her condition was a conservative Christian and therefore could not deliver a disinterested opinion. " She quotes Patricia Williams, who, in The Nation noted that Schiavo's "bulimic aversion to food was extreme enough to induce a massive systemic crisis that left her in what doctors de­ scribe as a 'persistent vegetative' state" ( 61) .

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.70 of 5 – based on 17 votes