Metanarratives of Disability

David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom.

• Part 1: International Developments of the Foundational Concept. 1. The Metanarrative of Blindness in North America: Meaning, Feeling, and Feel. 2. The Metanarrative of Blindness in the Global South: A LatDisCrit Counterstory to the Bittersweet Mythology of Blindness as Giftedness. 3. The Metanarrative of Blindness in India: Special Education and Assumed Knowledge Cultures. Part 2: Beyond Normative Minds and Bodies. 4. The Metanarrative of Mental Illness: A Collaborative Autoethnography. 5. The Metanarrative of OCD: Deconstructing Positive Stereotypes in Media and Popular Nomenclature. 6. The Metanarrative of Learning Disability: Vulnerability, Unworthiness, and Requiring Control. 7. The Metanarrative of Autism: Eternal Childhood and the Failure of Cure. 8. The Metanarrative of Down Syndrome: Proximity to Animality. 9. The Metanarrative of Dwarfism: Heightism and its Social Implications. Part 3: Chronic Conditions and the Emergence of Disability. 10. The Metanarrative of Chronic Pain: Culpable, Duplicitous, and Miserable. 11. The Metanarrative of Diabetes: Should You Be Eating That? 12. The Metanarrative of Cancer: Disrupting the Battle Myth. 13. The Metanarrative of HIV and AIDS: Losing Track of an Epidemic. 14. The Metanarrative of Sarcoidosis: Life in Liminality. 15. The Metanarrative of Arthritis: Playing and Betraying the Endgame.