Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Chapter One: Claiming the Land; Chapter Two: Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia?; Chapter Three: Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited; Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture; Chapter Four: Frank Miller's Daredevil; Chapter Five: Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature; Chapter Six: The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books
Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American PlacesChapter Seven: "The Whole Imprisoning Wasteland Beyond"; Chapter Eight: A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives; Index; About the Contributors
Summary
The essays in Disability and the Environment in American Literature contribute new insights into the fields of literary disability studies and ecocriticism by placing the two fields in dialogue. The book offers readings of American literary narratives of place that expose the deep relationship between embodiment and emplacement and that explore the ways in which a scrutiny of this relationship might open up our understanding of disability
