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

Author/creator Couser, G. Thomas
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
Descriptionviii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesCorporealities
Corporealities. ^A437391
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2009018643
ISBN9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN047207069X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBNebook

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