Disability and the American Counterculture

What is it about?

This special issue of JLCDS focuses on disability in relation to the work of American counterculture writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Ken Kesey.

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Why is it important?

The introduction and essays of the special issue explore the reasons why the counterculture so often incorporated disability as an ideological tool in its resistance to hegemonic American culture and what might be some of the problems of using disability in this way. It therefore brings insights to both fields of American counterculture and disability studies.