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Author Leskau, Linda

Title Disability in German-Speaking Europe History, Memory, Culture
Published Rochester : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (259 p.)
Series Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Ser. ; v.229
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Ser
Contents Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Negotiating Interpersonal Relationships: Historical Perspectives -- 1: Inclusion, Emotion, and Disability -- 2: "Moral Madness": Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal Histo -- 3: Deafness and "Disfigurement" as Relational Disorders: Aron Ronald Bodenheimer's Psychotherapy a -- Part II. Reckoning with the Past: Reconstruction of Memory -- 4: The Romance of the Institution: Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the "Feebleminded" in
5: From the Disability Murders Archive: Ernst Klee's Confrontation of the Public with Nazism's First -- 6: Disability in Nazi Germany: Memory of "Euthanasia" Crimes and Commemoration of Their Victims -- Part III. Intersections and Diversity: The Lens of Culture -- 7: A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler's Die Wupper -- 8: Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas Bernhard -- 9: Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities: Ulrike Ottinger's Freak Orlando: Kleines Welttheater in fünf E
10: Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser's Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis -- Contributors -- Index
Summary This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Nusser, Tanja
Katherine Sorrels, Katherine
Dederich, Markus
Elrod, Ashley L
Schmidt, Marion
Rosenblum, Warren
Herzog, Dagmar
Kaelber, Lutz
Weist, Caroline
ISBN 9781800105867
180010586X