Rhetorical Touch: Disability, Identification, Haptics

Fresh insights into redefining rhetoric discourse in the context of disability studies through touch

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 phy...