Signifying bodies [electronic resource] : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.
By: Couser, G. Thomas.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Corporealities: Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009Description: viii, 204 p. : ill.Subject(s): People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism | People with disabilities, Writings of, American | People with disabilities in literature | AutobiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/92087 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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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