TY - BOOK AU - Couser,G.Thomas ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Signifying bodies: disability in contemporary life writing T2 - Corporealities AV - PS153.P48 C68 2009eb U1 - 810.9/92087 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - People with disabilities KW - United States KW - Biography KW - History and criticism KW - People with disabilities, Writings of, American KW - People with disabilities in literature KW - Autobiography KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10395618 ER -