Reading Embodied Citizenship : Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic /

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Liberal individualism, a foundational concept of American politics, assumes an essentially homogeneous population of independent citizens. When confronted with physical disability and the contradiction of seemingly unruly bodies, however, the public searches for a story that can make sense of the di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russell, Emily (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Colección:The American Literatures Initiative
Temas:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Human body > Political aspects > United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism
  • 2. "Marvelous and Very Real": The Grotesque in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Wise Blood
  • 3. The Uniform Body: Spectacles of Disability and the Vietnam War
  • 4. Conceiving the Freakish Body: Reimagining Reproduction in Geek Love and My Year of Meats
  • 5. Some Assembly Required: The Disability Politics of Infinite Jest
  • Conclusion: Inclusion, Fixing, and Legibility
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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