04599nam 2200685I 450 991063287920332120220929072713.00-472-90303-910.3998/mpub.12221256(CKB)5710000000095463(NjHacI)995710000000095463(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94658(MiU)10.3998/mpub.12221256(MiAaPQ)EBC7144685(Au-PeEL)EBL7144685(OCoLC)1346252109(EXLCZ)99571000000009546320220929h20232023 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe disabled child memoirs of a normal future /Amanda Apgar1st ed.Ann Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,2023.©20231 online resource (x, 195 pages) illustrationsCorporealities: Discourses of Disability0-472-07569-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Towards a Narrative Theory of Childhood Development -- Chapter 2. Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and the Narrative of Overcoming -- Chapter 3. A Better Future -- Chapter 4. Gender Normal Future -- Chapter 5. "There is no narrative": Childhood Disability, Queerness, and "No Future" -- Conclusion. Nothing About Them, Without Us -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their experiences. The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future tracks the narratives that have emerged from the community of parent-memoirists who, since the 1980s, have written in resistance of their children's exclusion from culture. Though the disabilities represented in the genre are diverse, the memoirs share a number of remarkable similarities; they are generally written by white, heterosexual, middle or upper-middle class, ablebodied parents, and they depict narratives in which the disabled child overcomes barriers to a normal childhood and adulthood. Apgar demonstrates that in the process of telling these stories, which recuperate their children as productive members of society, parental memoirists write their children into dominant cultural narratives about gender, race, and class. By reinforcing and buying into these norms, Apgar argues, "special needs" parental memoirs reinforce ableism at the same time that they're writing against it.Corporealities.Parents of developmentally disabled childrenBiography20th centuryHistory and criticismParents of developmentally disabled childrenBiography21st centuryHistory and criticismChildren with disabilities in literatureHistory and criticism20th centuryChildren with disabilities in literatureHistory and criticism21st centuryChildren with disabilitiesBiographyHistory and criticism20th centuryChildren with disabilitiesBiographyHistory and criticism21st centuryChildren with disabilitiesCareHistory and criticism20th centuryChildren with disabilitiesCareHistory and criticism21st centuryDiscrimination against people with disabilitiesParents of developmentally disabled childrenBiographyHistory and criticism.Parents of developmentally disabled childrenBiographyHistory and criticism.Children with disabilities in literatureHistory and criticismChildren with disabilities in literatureHistory and criticismChildren with disabilitiesBiographyHistory and criticismChildren with disabilitiesBiographyHistory and criticismChildren with disabilitiesCareHistory and criticismChildren with disabilitiesCareHistory and criticismDiscrimination against people with disabilities.649.151Apgar Amanda1272480EYMEYMBOOK9910632879203321The disabled child3085971UNINA