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Fall 2019
Jun 12, 2021 |
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| ENGL 720 - Disability Studies |
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This course examines the role that disability plays in our culture. We will study the ways disability gets constructed
in discourses ranging from law and policy, to film, plays, novels, memoirs, and poetry, and consider how changing
conceptions of disability both ground and threaten notions of normality, identity, independence, productivity, and
personhood. Some topics we will explore include disabled modernism/modernity, disability poetry and poetics;
cognitive disability, dependency theory and the ethics of care; and the concept of "Deaf gain,” American Sign
Language poetics, and new developments in Deaf Studies. Texts include Virginia Woolf’s *Mrs. Dalloway*, Larry
Kramer’s *The Normal Heart*, poetry by Charlotte Mew, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Essex Hemphill, Hannah Weiner, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Alice Notley. This course participates in the Disability Studies Program event series. Students will attend lectures and performances by renowned disability theorists, advocates, and artists.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours Levels: MN or MC Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar English Department |
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