Disability as Epistemic Experience: Autofictional Representations of Disability in German and American Literature
| dc.contributor.advisor | Stern, Michael | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yeomans, Kaitlin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-27T20:41:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-27T20:41:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-04-27 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis seeks to explore how authors with disability create knowledge about the experience of disability that differs from cultural perceptions of disability. This thesis also utilizes autofictional narratives as a distinct phenomenon of disability that straddles the divide between fiction and autobiography. Utilizing critical disability studies as well as traditional literary studies as frameworks, I analyze how the author and the figure in autofiction create a literary identity that resonates back to the experience of the author with emphasis on disability. I examine the German narrative Psychocalypse oder das Warten auf Fu and the American narrative Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System. Often metaphorized in fiction, disability becomes a source of epistemology in autofiction as the authors represent themselves rather than being represented by others and as others. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/26164 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | |
| dc.title | Disability as Epistemic Experience: Autofictional Representations of Disability in German and American Literature | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Department of German and Scandinavian | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. |
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