Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing /
Couser, G. Thomas.
Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009. - viii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Corporealities . - Corporealities. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper) 047207069X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009018643
People with disabilities--History and criticism.--United States--Biography
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.
PS153.P48 / C68 2009
810.9/92087
Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009. - viii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Corporealities . - Corporealities. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper) 047207069X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009018643
People with disabilities--History and criticism.--United States--Biography
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.
PS153.P48 / C68 2009
810.9/92087