Disability in Film and Literature

Nicole Markotić teaches Creative Writing, Children’s Literature, and Disability Studies at the University of Windsor (Ontario). She has worked as a freelance editor, was poetry editor for Red Deer Press for six years, edits the chapbook series Wrinkle Press, and is currently on the NeWest editorial board.

“a thorough examination of the sociocultural and linguistic roots of society’s ambivalent attitudes toward individuals with disabilities. The narrative of this engaging, lively study is witty and flows easily. Highly recommended”—Choice; “a comprehensive examination”—ProtoView.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The [adj.] Body1. Razzle Dazzle Heartbreak: Disability Promotion and Glorious Abjection in Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World2. Transposing Disability: Passing, Intellectual Disabilities, and Accommodating Others3. Icarus, Gods and the “Lesson” of Disability4. Freaks, Misfits and Other Citizens5. 20th-Century Fables: Fiction, Disease, and—oh, yeah—Disability6. The Body in Pieces: Lacan and the Crisis of the Unified Fragmentary7. The Narrator Witness: Dis/connections Between Disability and Death8. Where the Line Breaks: Disability in the Poetry of Roy Miki and Sharon Thesen9. Play the Facts and the Truth: Disability in Documentary Film10. Sitting Pretty: The Politics of (Not) Standing on CeremonyAfterword: Not Assisted Suicide, Yet!Chapter NotesWorks CitedIndex