TY  - BOOK
AU  - Couser,G.Thomas
TI  - Signifying bodies: disability in contemporary life writing 
T2  - Corporealities
SN  - 9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PS153.P48 C68 2009
U1  - 810.9/92087 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - People with disabilities, Writings of, American
KW  - People with disabilities in literature
KW  - Autobiography
N1  - 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
ER  -