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Author Couser, G. Thomas.

Title Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description viii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Corporealities
Corporealities.
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.
LC no. 2009018643
ISBN 9780472070695 cloth alkaline paper
047207069X cloth alkaline paper
9780472050697 paperback alkaline paper
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