Signifying bodies
Couser, G. Thomas.
Signifying bodies disability in contemporary life writing / [electronic resource] : G. Thomas Couser. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009. - viii, 204 p. : ill. - Corporealities . - Corporealities. .
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
People with disabilities--History and criticism.--United States--Biography
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.
Electronic books.
PS153.P48 / C68 2009eb
810.9/92087
Signifying bodies disability in contemporary life writing / [electronic resource] : G. Thomas Couser. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009. - viii, 204 p. : ill. - Corporealities . - Corporealities. .
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
People with disabilities--History and criticism.--United States--Biography
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.
Electronic books.
PS153.P48 / C68 2009eb
810.9/92087