Stephanie L. Kerschbaum 
Signs of Disability [EPUB ebook] 

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How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?
We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-attention.”
To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena—including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability’s materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.
Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members’ experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of “dis-attention” and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings.

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Stephanie L. Kerschbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington and author of Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9781479811182 ● Dimensione 4.6 MB ● Casa editrice NYU Press ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2022 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 8683728 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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