dc.contributor.advisor |
Stern, Michael |
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dc.contributor.author |
Yeomans, Kaitlin |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2021-04-27T20:41:10Z |
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dc.date.available |
2021-04-27T20:41:10Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2021-04-27 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/26164 |
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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. |
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dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.rights |
All Rights Reserved. |
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dc.title |
Disability as Epistemic Experience: Autofictional Representations of Disability in German and American Literature |
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dc.type |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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thesis.degree.name |
M.A. |
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thesis.degree.level |
masters |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Department of German and Scandinavian |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
University of Oregon |
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