Signifying Bodies : Disability in Contemporary Life Writing /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Couser, G. Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Series:Corporealities.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Autobiography.
People with disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the some body memoir
  • Paradigms cost: disability and cultural representation
  • Rhetoric and self-representation in disability memoir
  • Double exposure: performing conjoined twinship
  • Identity, identicality, and life writing: telling (the silent) twins apart
  • Autoethnography and developmental disability: riding the bus with my sister
  • Disability as metaphor: what's wrong with Lying
  • Lucy Grealy and the some body obituary
  • Life writing and disability law: undoing hardship
  • Epilogue: the new disability memoir.

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