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.


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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