Esme Cleall

Colonising Disability (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its empire from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall explores how disability increasingly became associated with 'difference' and argues that it did so through intersecting with other categories of otherness such as race. Philanthropic, legal, literary, religious, medical, educational, eugenistic and parliamentary texts are examined to unpick representations of disability that, overtime, became pervasive with significant ramifications for disabled people. Cleall also uses multiple examples to show how disabled people navigated a wide range of experiences from 'freak shows' in Britain, to missions in India, to immigration systems in Australia, including exploring how they mobilised to resist discrimination and constitute their own identities. By assessing the intersection between disability and race, Dr Cleall opens up questions about 'normalcy' and the making of the imperial self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108996655
• Artikelnr.: 66182754

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.