{"product_id":"the-disarticulate-language-disability-and-the-narratives-of-modernity-9780814725306","title":"The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eLanguage is integral to our\u003cbr\u003esocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?\u003cbr\u003eThe mentally disabled, \"wild\" children, people with autism and other\u003cbr\u003eneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial\u003cbr\u003eintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.\u003cbr\u003eIn the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the\u003cbr\u003e'disarticulate'--those at the edges of language--have, paradoxically, played\u003cbr\u003eessential, defining roles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on the disarticulate figures in\u003cbr\u003emodern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, \u003cbr\u003eNightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, \u003cbr\u003eJames Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters\u003cbr\u003emark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and\u003cbr\u003escientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical\u003cbr\u003etension, as society confronts the needs and desires of \"the least of its\u003cbr\u003ebrothers.\" Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable\u003cbr\u003ein the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the\u003cbr\u003eprevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as\u003cbr\u003edisability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures\u003cbr\u003ereveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Berger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 7.05w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814725306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerger, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJames Berger\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He is author of After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse (1999) and a book of poetry, Prior (2013). He is the editor of Helen Keller's The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183694098547,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a30fdff9-b9e2-4187-8189-91b99891b85b.jpg?v=1655557882","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-disarticulate-language-disability-and-the-narratives-of-modernity-9780814725306","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}