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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Russell, Emily, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Human body > Political aspects > United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Human body in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism
  • Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood
  • The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War
  • Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats
  • Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest
  • Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.

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