Signifying bodies [electronic resource] : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.
Material type:
- 810.9/92087 22
- PS153.P48 C68 2009eb
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.
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