Rhetorical Touch: Disability, Identification, Haptics

by Shannon Walters

Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds, Shannon Walters explores how people with various disabilities--psychological, cognitive, and physical--employ touch to establish themselves as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611173833
• ISBN13: 9781611173833
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"