Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error Davidson Michael
Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error Davidson Michael The role of disability and deafness in artDistressing Language is full of mistakes--errors of hearing, speaking, writing,…
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Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error Davidson Michael
The role of disability and deafness in artDistressing Language is full of mistakes--errors of hearing, speaking, writing, and understanding. How have writers and artists, both disabled and non-disabled, used error as generative elements in contesting the presumed value of "sounding good"? Michael Davidson engages the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics, exploring how physical and intellectual differences challenge our understanding of art and poetry.Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens when words are misheard and misspoken?
Davidson maintains that verbal confusions are less an aberration in understanding than a component of new knowledge. Distressing Language grows out of the author's experience of hearing loss in which misunderstandings have become a daily occurrence.