- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 204 p.) : ill.
- Series Statement
- Corporealities
- Uniform Title
- Signifying bodies (Online)
- Corporealities.
- Alternative Title
- Signifying bodies (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009018643
- OCLC
- ssj0000428161
- Author
Couser, G. Thomas.
- Title
Signifying bodies [electronic resource] : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.
- Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- Series
Corporealities
Corporealities.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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