Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing /
G. Thomas Couser.
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- viii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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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.
People with disabilities--History and criticism.--United States--Biography People with disabilities, Writings of, American. People with disabilities in literature. Autobiography.