Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing

Signifying bodies disability in contemporary life writing

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...

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1. Verfasser: Couser, G. Thomas (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor, Mich. Univ. of Michigan Press c 2009
Schriftenreihe:Corporealities, discourses of disability
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People with disabilities > Biography > People with disabilities, Writings of, American > People with disabilities in literature > Autobiography > USA > Autobiografie > Behinderung > Literatur > Behinderter Mensch > Schriftsteller
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:VIII, 204 S.
Ill.
23 cm
ISBN:0472050699
0-472-05069-9
047207069X
0-472-07069-X
9780472050697
978-0-472-05069-7
9780472070695
978-0-472-07069-5