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03981aam a2200373 i 4500 001 C19520B400A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 161121t20162016mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016032933 020 $a 1498513972 020 $a 9781498513975 035 $a (OCoLC)957134480 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c YUS $d YDX $d COO $d OCLCO $d KSU $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374 P44 D573 2016 082 04 $a 809.9336 $2 23 245 00 $a Disability and the environment in American literature : $b toward an ecosomatic paradigm / $c edited by Matthew J. C. Cella. 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Lexington Books, $c [2016] 300 $a vii, 178 pages : $b Illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Ecocritical theory and practice 520 $a "This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained for both fields by putting them in conversation, and they do so in a variety of ways. In this manner, the collection contributes to what Joni Adamson and Scott Slovic have referred to as a 'third wave of ecocriticism.' Adamson and Slovic attribute the rise of this 'third wave' to the richly diverse contributions to ecocriticism over the past decade by scholars intent on including postmodernism, ecofeminism, transnationalism, globalization, and postcolonialism into ecocritical discussions. The essays in Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm extend this approach of this 'third wave' by analyzing disability from an 'environmental point of view' while simultaneously examining the environmental imagination from a disability studies perspective. More specifically, the goal of the collection is to investigate the role that literary narratives play in fostering the 'ecosomatic paradigm.' As a theoretical framework, the ecosomatic paradigm underscores the dynamic and inter-relational process wherein human mind-bodies interact with the places, both built and wild, they inhabit. That is, the ecosomatic paradigm proceeds from the assumption that nature and culture are meshed in an ongoing and deep relationship that has implications for both the human subject and the natural world. An ecosomatic approach highlights the profound overlap between embodiment and emplacement, and is therefore enriched by both disability studies and ecocritical insight. By drawing on points of confluence between disability studies and ecological criticism, the various ecosomatic readings in this collection challenge normative (even ableist) constructions of the body-environment dyad by complicating and expanding our understanding of this relationship as it is represented in American literature and culture Collectively, the essays in this book augment the American environmental imagination by highlighting the relationship between disability and the environment as reflected in American literary texts across multiple periods and genres"--Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Ecosomatic approaches to nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature -- Part II. Ecosomatic approaches to American popular culture -- Part III. Ecosomatic readings of American places. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a People with disabilities in literature. 650 0 $a Ecocriticism. 700 1 $a Cella, Matthew J. C., $d 1974- $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Disability and the environment in American literature $d Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017] $z 9781498513982 $w (DLC) 2016054375 830 0 $a Ecocritical theory and practice. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304032530.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C19520B400A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search