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Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.

By: Series: CorporealitiesPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.Description: viii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 047207069X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/92087 22
LOC classification:
  • PS153.P48 C68 2009
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS153 .P48 C68 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001086866

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.

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