Disability in German-speaking Europe : history, memory, culture / edited by Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels.

Date:
2022
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"Ableism remains the most socially acceptable form of intolerance, with pejoratives referencing disability - and intellectual disability in particular - remaining largely unquestioned among many. Yet the understanding, depiction, and representation of disability is also clearly in a process of transformation. This volume analyzes that transformation, taking a close look at attitudes toward disability, understood as a "deviation" from what a non-disabled body should ostensibly be able to do and how it should look, in historical and contemporary German-speaking contexts. The volume begins with an overview of the emergence and growth of disability studies in German-speaking Europe against the background of the field's emergence a decade or so earlier in the US and UK. The differences in timing, methodology, and research concentrations bring into focus how each cultural context has shaped the field. Building on recent scholarship that uses a cultural studies approach, the volume's three sections analyze disability and ability constructs in history, memory, and culture. The essays in the history section examine the emotions, morality, and power as they are negotiated on the individual level. Those in the memory section grapple with the origins of the Nazi persecution of people with disabilities, the fight for recognition of this genocide, and the politics of its commemoration. Finally, the culture section offers close readings of disability in literary and filmic texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2022.

Physical description

vi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrel -- Inclusion, Emotion, and Disability / Markus Dederich and Katherine Sorrels -- "Moral Madness" : Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal History / Ashley L. Elrod -- Deafness and "Disfigurement" as Relational Disorders : Aron Ronald Bodenheimer's Psychotherapy at the Zurich School for the Deaf during the 1960s / Marion Schmidt -- The Romance of the Institution : Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the "Feeble-Minded" in Modern Germany / Warren Rosenblum -- From the Disability Murders Archive : Ernst Klee's Confrontation of the Public with Nazism's First Genocide / Dagmar Herzog -- Disability in Nazi Germany : Memory of "Euthanasia" Crimes and Commemoration of Their Victims / Lutz Kaelber -- A Crip Chronotope : Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler's Die Wupper / Caroline Weist -- Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas Bernhard / Linda Leskau -- Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities : Ulrike Ottinger's Freak Orlando : Kleines Welttheater in fünf Episoden / Tanja Nusser -- Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser's Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis / Waltraud Maierhofer.

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  • 9781640141087
  • 1640141081