Disability Rhetoric (Critical Perspectives on Disability) - Hardcover

Dolmage, Jay Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815633246 ISBN 13: 9780815633242

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Jay Timothy Dolmage is associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo. He is the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815633246
• ISBN 13: 9780815633242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 349