Signifying bodies [[electronic resource] ] : disability in contemporary life writing / / G. Thomas Couser
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 204 p. :) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/92087 |
| Soggetto topico: | People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism |
| People with disabilities, Writings of, American | |
| People with disabilities in literature | |
| Autobiography | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Signifying bodies |
| ISBN: | 0-472-07069-X |
| 1-282-63909-9 | |
| 9786612639098 | |
| 0-472-02659-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785172003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Corporealities.