This book is framed as a memoir of the author's journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures.

Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He was the former editor of TESOL Quarterly and President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.

Preface

1. Am I Disabled?

2. Learning to be Able

3. BC/AC: Changing Identities and Communities

4. Designer Babies and Chosen Tribes: Toward a Relational Politics

5. From War Zones to Cancer Wards: A Community of Dependent Frail Bodies

6. Composing at Chemo Time: Cancer Journals as Performative Writing

7. John's Final Blogs: Anomalous Embodiment and Religious Disability Rhetoric

8. The Arbor and the Rhizome: Rethinking Language Competence

9. Weaving Texts: Scientific Communication as Anomalous Embodiment

10. "Supplement or Compensate our Weak Points": Relational Ethics in Academic Interactions

11. Café Conversations: Embracing Vulnerability in Society and Education

Index