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A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions / / Zosha Stuckey



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Autore: Stuckey Zosha <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions / / Zosha Stuckey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
Disciplina: 362.3/850974766
Soggetto topico: Intellectual disability facilities - United States - History
Intellectual disability facilities - New York (State) - History
People with mental disabilities - Education - United States - History
Intellectual disability facilities patients - United States - History
Intellectual disability - United States - History
Sociology of disability - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School -- Minding the Gap -- Rhetoric -- Rhetoric and Remnants -- The Asylum-School, Its Pupils, and the Closing of the Institution -- Disability Studies and Feminist Rhetorics -- Review of Chapters -- 2. "Confusion into Order Changed": The Rhetorics That Govern(ed) Institutionalization -- Introduction -- The Noble Asylum -- The School -- The Prison -- The Described and the Counted -- The Nameless Idiot -- The Visited and the Displayed -- Conclusion -- 3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of "Special" (All) Education -- The Roots of "Special" Education -- All Sensations Are Touch, All Ideas Are Sensations -- The Object Method, the Hand, and the Garden System -- The Face, the Posture, Walking, Then Thinking -- Sensations, Notions, Then Ideas -- Imitation as Social Relation -- Speech, Language, Listening, and Recitation -- After Speech, Drawing, Writing, Then Reading -- The Excited Will of the Teacher, the Dull Will of the Pupil -- Moving the Will: Order, Social Decorum, and Appearances -- A Discourse of Rights and Participation in Worldly Affairs -- The Farm and the Sewing Room -- Burgeoning of the Asylum -- A Pedagogy of Sensation, Functional Action, and Participation -- 4. In Pursuit of the Underlife of an Archive -- Introduction -- Layers of Discourse -- Overview of the Letters -- Letters To Mrs. Thornton -- Harmony and Accord -- Tension and Discordance -- Listening Further -- Letters from Families and Pupils: In Praise of the Institution -- Listening Even Further -- 5. Conclusion: "Idiocy" An Old, Worn-Out Story -- The Sheltered Workshop versus the World -- The Price of "Education" -- Inscribing Presence -- Straightening Up and Straightening Out -- Strength in Variation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Titolo autorizzato: A rhetoric of remnants  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4384-5303-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810551803321
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