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Autore |
Couser G. Thomas |
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Titolo |
Signifying bodies [[electronic resource] ] : disability in contemporary life writing / / G. Thomas Couser |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 |
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0-472-07069-X |
1-282-63909-9 |
9786612639098 |
0-472-02659-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 204 p. :) : ill. ; |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism |
People with disabilities, Writings of, American |
People with disabilities in literature |
Autobiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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