Distressing language : disability and the poetics of error / Michael Davidson.
| Author/creator | Davidson, Michael, 1944- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : New York University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Crip: new directions in disability studies Crip (Series) ^A1410836 |
| Contents | Introduction : distressing language -- Poetics of mishearing -- Siting sound : redistributing the senses in Christine Sun Kim -- Misspeaking poetics -- "Tongue-tied and/muscle/bound" : doing time with Eigner -- Diverting language : Jena Osman's corporate subject -- Missing music : the theft of sound in Alison O'Daniel's The tuba thieves -- A captioned life -- Afterword : redressing language. |
| Abstract | "This book is about the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics and how physical and intellectual difference challenges generic terms for art and poetry. The book's title combines language that disturbs or causes anxiety with language that is ripped, worn, or damaged. This interplay brings together the social environment in which language is exchanged with the materiality of words that frustrate easy comprehension. Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens when words are misheard and misspoken? How have writers and artists, both disabled and non-disabled, used error as generative elements in contesting the presumed value of "sounding good?" This book grows out of the author's experience of hearing loss in which misunderstandings have become a daily occurrence. Deafness becomes a guide in each chapter in considering how verbal confusions are less an aberration in understanding than a component of new knowledge"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2021030643 |
| ISBN | 9781479813827 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1479813826 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781479813841 paperback |
| ISBN | 1479813842 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | NX180 .C65 D38 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |