Esme Cleall

Colonising Disability

Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire. Using a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall sheds important light on identity, othering, representation and experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century drawing into question other key concepts such as race and 'normalcy'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 311
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781108987370
• ISBN-10: 1108987370
• Artikelnr.: 70524922

Autorenporträt

Esme Cleall is a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, c. 1840-1900 (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Thinking about disability, rethinking difference
2. Disability and Otherness in the British Empire: disablement as a discourse of difference
3. Saving the other at home and overseas: philanthropy, education and the state
4. 'A Fearfully and wonderfully made individual': exhibiting bodily anomaly
5. Signs of Humanity: Language and Civilisation
6. A Deaf Imaginary: disability, nationhood and belonging in the 'British World'
7. Immigration: racism, ableism and exclusion
8. The health of the nation: class, race, gender and disability in imperial Britain
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.