Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment - Softcover

Titchkosky, Tanya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802095062 ISBN 13: 9780802095060

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2007

Synopsis

Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society.

Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media and policy texts reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of problems, as they relate to our understandings of the embodied self. Her goal is to configure disability as something more than a problem, and beyond simply a positive or a negative, and to treat texts on disability as potential sites to examine neo-liberal culture. Titchkosky holds that through an exploration of the potential behind limited representations of disability, we can relate to disability as a meaningful form of resistance to the restricted normative order of contemporary embodiment.

Incorporating a textual analysis of ordinary depictions of disability, this innovative study promises to represent embodied differences in new ways and alter our imaginative relations to the politics of the body.

About this title

About the Author

Tanya Titchkosky is an associate professor and an associate department chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

From the Back Cover

'"Reading and Writing Disability Differently" is an original, highly accessible, and well-structured exploration of the textu(r)ality of encountering, enacting, and reproducing the meanings of the disabled body. Tanya Titchkosky carries through the disability studies project of destabilizing socio-normativities with a light personal touch that engages with both everyday culture and contemporary theory.'-Margrit Shildrick, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802095062
• ISBN 13: 9780802095060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192