Invalid modernism : disability and the missing body of the aesthetic

Invalid modernism : disability and the missing body of the aesthetic / Michael Davidson.

Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive difference during a period ma...

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Main Author: Davidson, Michael, 1944- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
People with disabilities and the arts.
Modernism (Literature)
Disabilities > History.
People with disabilities > History.
People with disabilities in literature.
Disabilities in literature.
Aesthetics.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
People with disabilities and the arts
Aesthetics
Disabilities
Disabilities in literature
People with disabilities
People with disabilities in literature
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic; Copyright; Dedication; Preface: Disorientations; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Disability, Modernism, and the Embodied Aesthetic; MEETING HAROLD RUSSELL; INVALID MODERNISM: AESTHETICS, DISABILITY, DIFFERENCE; BIOFUTURITIES; NEGATIVE INTERSECTIONALITY; CONCLUSION; 1: Invalid Modernism: A Diseased Aesthetic; THE PHARMAKON OF CONTAGION; AESTHETIC INVALIDISM: THE UNPRODUCTIVE LIFE; SIGNIFYING NOTHING; THE CONVALESCENT SUBLIME: THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN; ANAESTHETIC MODERNISM
  • 2: "The Rage of Caliban": The Mirror of RecognitionTHE INFANTA VARIATIONS; THE TRAGEDY OF THE UGLY MAN; THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE; 3: Exquisite Corporeality: Detachable Bodies of the Avant-Garde; HEADLESSNESS; "AN END-RUN AROUND OEDIPUS": MARINETTI AND MAFARKA; DETACHABLE SENSATIONS: TRISTAN TZARA; FRIDA KAHLO: DETESTING SURREALISM; CONCLUSION: BECOMING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT; 4: "Every Man his Specialty": Beckett and the Dialectics of Dependency; "TO DECOMPOSE IS TO LIVE, TOO"; "WHAT A CURSE, MOBILITY!"; "NO MORE NATURE"; DEPENDENT RATIONAL ANIMALS
  • 5: Pregnant Men: Biofuturity in Djuna Barnes and Virginia WoolfQUEER FUTURES AND THE REPRODUCTIVE HORIZON; "IMPERMISSIBLE BLOOD": NIGHTWOOD AND THE GENEALOGICAL IMPERATIVE; NAMING SICKNESS; LEGAL FICTIONS; 6: Uncanny Encounters: Dramas of Contingency in Modernism; FACES IN THE CROWD; AESTHETIC INVESTIGATIONS; EPIC IDENTIFICATIONS: FRANK NORRIS; THE "GHOST OF REASON": HENRY JAMES; AFFECTIVE HAUNTING: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND JEAN TOOMER; FEELING MODERN; 7: Missing Bodies: Disappearances in the Aesthetic; BECOMING ANIMAL: INDRA SINHA'SA NIMAL'S PEOPLE; MISSING PERSONS: AMANDA BAGGS' "IN MY LANGUAGE."
  • EXTENDING HOSPITALITY: RACHEL ZOLF, NEIGHBOUR PROCEDURELIVING SOCIAL DEATH: M. NOURBESE PHILIP, ZONG!; MISSING BODIES; 8: Cleavings: Critical Losses in the Politics of Deaf Gain; "I COULD NOT SEE TO SEE-"; "A PLANK IN REASON"; "INTERNAL DIFFERENCE"; SIDE EFFECTS; Works Cited; Index

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