scholarly journals “Hopefully I Won’t Be Misunderstood.” Disability Rhetoric in Jürg Acklin’s Vertrauen ist gut

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Alec Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Disability Rhetoric

This essay brings together the fields of German literature, disability studies, and rhetoric in an analysis of the rhetorical strategies and representational implications of disability in Jürg Acklin’s 2009 novel Vertrauen ist gut. Resting on the theory of complex embodiment, the analysis considers the rhetoric of anmut as a literary strategy that invites readers to share imperfect, yet profound, embodied rhetorical connections with the protagonist without rendering invisible the differences that shape embodied experience. Although the characters in Vertrauen ist gut are fictional, this novel provides important insights regarding experiences of precarious embodiment and affirms the value of interdependence while challenging ideals of autonomy and independence. Furthermore, the novel’s narrative within a narrative—and the consequences of the narrator’s interpretation of their significance—challenges readers to use caution when interpreting literary narratives, as their relationship to personal narratives may not always be straightforward.

Archiving affect and activism: Hashtag feminism and structures of feeling in Women's March tweets

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi McDuffie ◽  
Melissa Ames
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Affective Outcomes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
The U.S

On 21 January 2017, over three million women participated in the Women’s March throughout the U.S., one day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. This article investigates the digital component of this historic protest as a powerful moment of hashtag feminism, one that exemplifies the vital role of affect in contributing to social change. Through qualitative analysis of 2,600 #WhyIMarch tweets from the day of the March, we identify the rhetorical strategies that best leverage affect to further the social justice goals of the March — dedications, personal narratives, the use of first-person, and the use of humor — and describe the affective outcomes of these strategies, including motivational affect, vicarious affect, and collective affect. Using Raymond Williams’ concept of “structures of feeling,” we argue that these rhetorical strategies and their affective outcomes create a digital archive of affect that captures the cultural climate surrounding the Women’s March and mediates the way this cultural moment is affectively remembered. This study reveals that affect is vital for effective hashtag feminism

scholarly journals Gonzo, Ironic Nostalgia, Magical Realism, or, How to Re-Narrate Traumatic Transnational Borderland Stories. Examples from the Twenty-First Century Polish(-German) Literature

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
German Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
New Generation

This paper focuses on the former Austrian crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria and its return in literary texts of a new generation that can recall it only from collective and family memory. Spaces like Galicia are situated in shifting political borders and often marked by (fragmented) memories connected to traumas caused by migration, forced resettlements, expulsions, or violence. The rediscovery of these spaces, often from nostalgia for a lost home and bygone times, is the starting point of many narratives of the postmemory generations in contemporary literature. Authors use new rhetorical strategies when dealing with adversarial nationalistic and traumatic topics: ironic nostalgia, gonzo, and magical realism. These narratives do not verify “truths,” instead they play with different myths, possibilities, and “alternative futures.” The analysis includes Tomasz Różycki’s Dwanaście stacji (2004), Sabrina Janesch’s Katzenberge (2010), and Ziemowit Szczerek’s Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje (2013).

scholarly journals "COXA DE NASCENÇA": MISCONCEPTIONS, NORMALCY AND THE AESTHETICS OF DIFFERENCE IN MEMÓRIAS PÓSTUMAS DE BRÁS CUBAS BY MACHADO DE ASSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (25) ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
KATHRYN SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Main Protagonist

Abstract This article analyzes a short yet significant episode in Machado de Assis's novel Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas in which the main protagonist-narrator describes the recollections of an amorous encounter with a young girl, Eugênia, who had the misfortune of being born lame. Theoretically informed by the work of Lennard Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Mark Osteen, among others, in the field of Disability Studies, this study engages with prior readings of Memórias Póstumas to discuss the embodied experience of disability at the intersection of the aesthetics of beauty and social acceptance within the context of the Brazilian nineteenth century.

scholarly journals Cancer, Appearance, and Identity

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christabel Homewood
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
The Body ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Primary Methods ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
Physical Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between cancer, appearance, and sense of self. Through engagement with participants who have had cancer I will explore how the physical impact of the disease and treatment on the body affects women’s identity. I utilize interviews, photo-elicitation, and personal narratives as my primary methods. This research contributes to a greater understanding of the embodied experience of cancer and the influence of bodily changes on identity.

scholarly journals Movements and Autopathographies

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Brueggemann ◽  
Elizabeth Brewer Olson
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Disability Rhetoric

No abstract available.CorrigendumCorrection of: https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i1.7470The authors of the editorial introduction entitled "Rhetorical and Reviewing Acts of Transformation and Cunning (on a cloudy day)" [Disability Studies Quarterly Vol. 40, No. 1, 2020] incorrectly cited the publisher for Jay Dolmage's Disability Rhetoric. The correct publisher should read: Syracuse UP. The correction notice is published in Disability Studies Quarterly Vol. 40, No. 2, 2020, https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i2.7638.

Living Memory, Embodied Experience, and What Gets Lost in the Story of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Cynthia Richards
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Multidirectional Memory

Abstract This essay uses Alexander Pope’s celebrated poem The Rape of the Lock as a case study for understanding how to read literature in a way that is more cognizant of loss and for understanding the role of active and embodied remembering in doing so. It frames the poem as a type of literary memorial and then posits a different way of reading it as a form of active remembering and traumatic return. The essay also points toward the insights of disability studies and how that framework allows a definition of the human that sees loss as constitutive and hence “normal” rather than singular. The essay concludes by gesturing toward how the meaning/memory of this poem is ongoing and “subject to negotiation”—as Michael Rothberg argues in Multidirectional Memory—as shaped by current events just as it was shaped by the politics of its time.

scholarly journals Islam, Leprosy, and Disability: How Religion, History, Art, and Storytelling Can Yield New Insights and Acceptance

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Rooshey Hasnain ◽  
Jon Queijo ◽  
Suheil Laher ◽  
Carrie Sandahl
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Islamic Values

Age-old fears and misconceptions about leprosy have flourished for centuries and the condition remains both a socially stigmatizing issue and a public health problem in many parts of the globe. In the context of Islam, only a few personal narratives by Muslims living with leprosy exist, and no one has systematically reviewed accounts of leprosy related disability from early or recent Islamic history, including the Prophet Muhammad’s interactions with individuals living with leprosy. In this article, we present previously untold stories about leprosy, from both English and Arabic sources strongly rooted in Islamic values and principles. After an introduction and brief history of Islam, this article is divided into three main sections: (1) The foundations of early Islamic values about illness, leprosy, and disability; (2) Leprosy and stigma in Islamic communities and/or places; and (3) Art, storytelling, and other expressions by people living with leprosy in various parts of the world. The authors also discuss some of the challenges of defining leprosy terminology based on early historic documents. The overall purpose of this article is to describe historical and religious accounts of leprosy and amplify the collective voices and experiences of Muslims who live with leprosy from a disability studies frame. The authors also introduce the ‘House is Black’, a short documentary that illustrates additional insights and commentary related to disability related leprosy.

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