Jan Grue – författare

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. Conversely, discourse analysts have traditionally been concerned with social issues and fields in which asymmetric power relations, marginalization, and discrimination play a central role, e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, all of which share many analytical features with disability. But although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes disability a more salient topic for discourse analysts.

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. Conversely, discourse analysts have traditionally been concerned with social issues and fields in which asymmetric power relations, marginalization, and discrimination play a central role, e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, all of which share many analytical features with disability. But although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes disability a more salient topic for discourse analysts.

»Jag har en medfödd muskelsjukdom. Jag är rullstolsbrukare. Jag har hög utbildning. Jag har ett jobb. Jag är på ytan framgångsrik. Vad krävdes för att jag skulle komma hit?«

När Jan Grue blir pappa får han ta över en bunt papper från sina föräldrar en hyllmeter med journaler, läkaranteckningar och inlagor. Brev från myndigheter, som med jämna mellanrum undrar: Hur är pojkens tillstånd nu? Vi behöver bedöma hans hjälpbehov på nytt. Utifrån dessa papper, och sina erfarenheter av att leva med en sårbar kropp i ett modernt välfärdssamhälle, skriver Jan Grue om drömmar, arbete, framgång och tillgänglighet. Med stor kraft och precision skildrar han den uppoffring som krävs för att få leva ungefär som alla andra.

Jag lever ett liv som liknar ditt har fått ett lysande mottagande i Norge, där den tilldelades Kritikerpriset och dessutom nominerades till Nordiska rådets litteraturpris 2019.

»Ett litterärt mästerverk som rekommenderas å det starkaste.« Dagbladet »En milstolpe inom norsk sakprosa.« Morgonbladet

Rhetorica Scandinavica has functioned as a sower of academic seeds. As the journal has grown, rhetoric courses and programmes have multiplied across Scandinavia. The journal is the major source of nativelanguage literature in the field, and articles frequently find a place on curricula. Thus, Rhetorica Scandinavica has had a significant impact on the study of rhetoric in the Scandinavian countries. The 18 articles in this book are just a few highlights from 13 years – a total of over 225 peer-reviewed articles – of Rhetorica Scandinavica publications. They have been chosen to introduce some aspects of the study of rhetoric as it is performed in Scandinavia to a readership that is un-familiar with the three Scandinavian languages.