Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-20

Part I - Negotiating Interpersonal Relationships: Historical Perspectives

pp 21-22

1 - Inclusion, Emotion, and Disability

pp 23-43

2 - “Moral Madness”: Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal History

pp 44-65

3 - Deafness and “Disfigurement” as Relational Disorders: Aron Ronald Bodenheimer’s Psychotherapy at the Zurich School for the Deaf during the 1960s

pp 66-86

Part II - Reckoning with the Past: Reconstruction of Memory

pp 87-88

4 - The Romance of the Institution: Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the “Feebleminded” in Modern Germany

pp 89-109

5 - From the Disability Murders Archive: Ernst Klee’s Confrontation of the Public with Nazism’s First Genocide

pp 110-129

6 - Disability in Nazi Germany: Memory of “Euthanasia” Crimes and Commemoration of Their Victims

pp 130-154

Part III - Intersections and Diversity: The Lens of Culture

pp 155-156

7 - A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler’s Die Wupper

pp 157-178

8 - Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas Bernhard

pp 179-197

9 - Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities: Ulrike Ottinger’s Freak Orlando: Kleines Welttheater in fünf Episoden

pp 198-218

10 - Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser’s Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis

pp 219-240

Notes on the Contributors

pp 241-242

Index

pp 243-249