Between the valley and the field: Metaphor and disability
J Dolmage - Prose Studies, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
J Dolmage
Prose Studies, 2005•Taylor & FrancisThis essay locates discourses about disability in opposing spaces–prose and poetry, the
literal and the metaphorical. The author explodes the binary and charts a new territory,
following disability to challenge language use, to reveal the metaphorical nature of prose
and the literal power of poetry, to shake up the terms that objectify people with disabilities
and to listen, look and feel for new ways to express bodily experience.
literal and the metaphorical. The author explodes the binary and charts a new territory,
following disability to challenge language use, to reveal the metaphorical nature of prose
and the literal power of poetry, to shake up the terms that objectify people with disabilities
and to listen, look and feel for new ways to express bodily experience.
This essay locates discourses about disability in opposing spaces – prose and poetry, the literal and the metaphorical. The author explodes the binary and charts a new territory, following disability to challenge language use, to reveal the metaphorical nature of prose and the literal power of poetry, to shake up the terms that objectify people with disabilities and to listen, look and feel for new ways to express bodily experience.
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