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Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing
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Title
Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.
ISBN
9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper)
047207069X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) : illustrations
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Variant and related titles
UMPEBC backlist 2011-2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2022
Series
Corporealities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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