Disability rhetoric /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dolmage, Jay, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (368 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Critical perspectives on disability Critical perspectives on disability.
Subject:	People with disabilities. Rhetoric -- Social aspects. Disabled Persons. Social Marginalization. Semantics. Body Image -- psychology. Identity Crisis. People with disabilities. Rhetoric -- Social aspects. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11223857

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ISBN:	9780815652335 081565233X 9780815633242 0815633246
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.--Publisher description.
Other form:	Print version: Dolmage, Jay. Disability rhetoric. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014 Critical perspectives on disability 9780815633242

Table of Contents:

Disability Studies of Rhetoric
Interchapter: An Archive and Anatomy of Disability Myths
Rhetorical Histories of Disability
Imperfect Meaning
Interchapter: A Repertoire and Choreography of Disability Rhetorics
Mêtis
Eating Rhetorical Bodies
I Did It on Purpose.