Signifying bodies [electronic resource] : disability in contemporary life writing /
by Couser, G. Thomas; ProQuest (Firm).
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BookSeries: Corporealities: Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009Description: viii, 204 p. : ill.ISBN: ; ; ; .Subject(s): People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism | People with disabilities, Writings of, American | People with disabilities in literature | Autobiography | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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