{"product_id":"the-disarticulate-language-disability-and-the-narratives-of-modernity-hardback-9780814708460","title":"The Disarticulate; Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity (Hardback) 9780814708460","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Disarticulate\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLanguage, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Berger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814708460\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 May 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[T]he book is a valuable contribution to disability studies both for its speculations and specific readings. It is a very thoughtful and thought-filled work, nuanced and wide-ranging, which should have an effect on the field.\" (Critical Inquiry)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage is integral to our\u003cbr\u003e social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?\u003cbr\u003e The mentally disabled, \"wild\" children, people with autism and other\u003cbr\u003e neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial\u003cbr\u003e intelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.\u003cbr\u003e In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the\u003cbr\u003e 'disarticulate'—those at the edges of language—have, paradoxically, played\u003cbr\u003e essential, defining roles.\u003cbr\u003e  Drawing on the disarticulate figures in\u003cbr\u003e modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury,\u003cbr\u003e Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others,\u003cbr\u003e James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters\u003cbr\u003e mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and\u003cbr\u003e scientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical\u003cbr\u003e tension, as society confronts the needs and desires of \"the least of its\u003cbr\u003e brothers.\" Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable\u003cbr\u003e in the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the\u003cbr\u003e prevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as\u003cbr\u003e disability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures\u003cbr\u003e reveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563794821400,"sku":"9780814708460","price":49.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-disarticulate-language-disability-and-the-narratives-of-modernity-hardback-9780814708460","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}