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This dissertation proposes to the contrary that it is traditional poetic forms, usually seen as supporting expressions of identity, that might instead be viewed as creating rather than ameliorating difficulty for disability poets. Such conventions do not adequately account for experiences with disability, pain, healing, and interdependence, nor do they offer poetic forms for thinking the world and self outside of oppressive discursive or sociopolitical structures. In turn, I read exploratory, experimental disability poetries as enacting and expanding many of contemporary disability studies’ most important insights. It is this productive, rather than oxymoronic, intersection of innovative poetics and disability both as experience and reflective, scholarly field, that I call \"radical accessibility\". This dissertation explores how experimental disability—or, as I term it, radically accessible—poets enact and represent disability and what their focus on the language of their bodies and the body of their languages reveals about the interpretable, socially constructed, and experiential components of disability. This intersectional approach further opens up both fields to questions about how together, disability studies and experimental poetry can critique exclusionary aesthetic conventions and the values that underlie them, such as the assumptions that an accessible text cannot be difficult and that writing is a solitary, disembodied art form. Investigating disability poetry through the lenses of both disciplines at once allows me to bring into focus the sociopolitical stakes of the counter aesthetics of radical accessibility, which resist the exclusion and oppression of people with disabilities, as well as conceptions of disability as purely biological, individual, and/or in need of a cure."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Radical Accessibility: Disability in American Poetry after 1960"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Goldman, Judith","English"],"dc:creator":["Gould, Declan"],"dc:date":["2019-10-28T20:42:44Z","2019","2019-07-27 18:16:22"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","Scholars have long viewed identity-based literature as being opposed to literature that deconstructs narrative, subjectivity and the linguistic structures that are used to articulate them. 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