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Reading embodied citizenship : disability, narrative, and the body politic
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Reading embodied citizenship : disability, narrative, and the body politic / Emily Russell.
ISBN
9780813549392 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813549396 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
viii, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2011
Series
American literatures initiative
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism
Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood
The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War
Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats
Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest
Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.
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