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Signifying bodies disability in contemporary life writing

Title
Signifying bodies [electronic resource] : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.
Author
Couser, G. Thomas.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 204 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Corporealities
Uniform Title
  • Signifying bodies (Online)
  • Corporealities.
Alternative Title
Signifying bodies (Online)
Subject
  • People with disabilities > United States > Biography > History and criticism
  • People with disabilities, Writings of, American
  • People with disabilities in literature
  • Autobiography
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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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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