TY  - BOOK
AU  - Apgar,Amanda
ED  - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Disabled Child : : Memoirs of a Normal Future / 
T2  - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
SN  - 9780472903030
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Ann Arbor, Michigan
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Discrimination against people with disabilities
KW  - Children with disabilities
KW  - Care
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Children with disabilities in literature
KW  - Parents of developmentally disabled children
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their experiences. The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future tracks the narratives that have emerged from the community of parent-memoirists who, since the 1980s, have written in resistance of their children’s exclusion from culture. Though the disabilities represented in the genre are diverse, the memoirs share a number of remarkable similarities; they are generally written by white, heterosexual, middle or upper-middle class, ablebodied parents, and they depict narratives in which the disabled child overcomes barriers to a normal childhood and adulthood. Apgar demonstrates that in the process of telling these stories, which recuperate their children as productive members of society, parental memoirists write their children into dominant cultural narratives about gender, race, and class.   By reinforcing and buying into these norms, Apgar argues, “special needs” parental memoirs reinforce ableism at the same time that they’re writing against it
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/109275/
ER  -