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Summary:

This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the consequences of stigmatization and the bodily dimensions of social differences. The texts include Robert F. Murphys The Body Silent, Simi Lintons My Body Politic, Rod Michalkos The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness, three memoirs by Stephen Kuusisto, Vincent O. Carters The Bern Book, as well as two novels, Matthew Griffins Hide and Armistead Maupins Maybe the Moon. All of the texts discussed in this book negotiate the significance of bodily and perceptual habits, the influence of language and culture on embodiment, the importance of relationality and community, the severe effects of misrecognition, and the possibilities of emancipation and social recognition. Hence, they are read as pioneering contributions to the emerging field of critical phenomenology. Simon Dickel is Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. He is the author of Black/Gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s (2011).

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Disability and Embodiment
• 3 Blindness and Perception
• 4 Blackness and Visibility
• 5 Gayness and Invisibility.

Author/Creator:

Dickel, Simon , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Embodying difference: critical phenomenology and narratives of disability, race, and sexuality [by Dickel, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: EMBODYING DIFFERENCE [by DICKEL, S.] ([Place of publication not identified] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2022 — ISBN 3030901068; OCLC Number 1273077504)

Subjects:

Phenomenology and literature

Race in literature

People with disabilities in literature

Gender identity in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN49 .D53 2022eb

ISBNs:

9783030901073 (electronic bk.)
3030901076 (electronic bk.)
9783030901066 [Invalid]
3030901068 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1291560658