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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785172003321

Autore

Couser G. Thomas

Titolo

Signifying bodies [[electronic resource] ] : disability in contemporary life writing / / G. Thomas Couser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009

ISBN

0-472-07069-X

1-282-63909-9

9786612639098

0-472-02659-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 204 p. :) : ill. ;

Collana

Corporealities

Disciplina

810.9/92087

Soggetti

People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism

People with disabilities, Writings of, American

People with disabilities in literature

Autobiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.