Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing /

G. Thomas Couser.
Bok · Engelsk · 2009 G. Thomas. Couser

Utgitt	Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press, , c2009.
Omfang	viii, 204 p. : : ill. ;
Opplysninger	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.
Emner	Autobiography. People with disabilities in literature. People with disabilities - Biography - History and criticism. - United States People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
Dewey	810.992087
ISBN	0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper). - 047207069X (cloth : alk. paper). - 9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper). - 9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper)