Textual Mainstreaming and Rhetorics of Accommodation

Julie Jung Illinois State University

Abstract

Abstract In this essay I examine the problematics of mainstreaming within one site of composition studies research—the composition anthology. Specifically, I apply articulation theory and feminist disability theory to argue that the mainstreaming of disability narratives within composition readers, when articulated with a theory of individual subjectivity, legitimizes the belief that accommodation is an individualized process. Thus accommodation becomes synonymous with “fitting in,” a definition that locates the responsibility for adaptation within the “abnormal” body rather than within the institutions and ideologies that construct it as such.

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Rhetoric Review
Published
2007-05-01
DOI
10.1080/07350190709336707
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  1. College English
  2. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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