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Author Apgar, Amanda, author

Title The disabled child : memoirs of a normal future / Amanda Apgar
Published Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations
Series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Corporealities.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Towards a Narrative Theory of Childhood Development -- Chapter 2: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and the Narrative of Overcoming -- Chapter 3: A Better Future -- Chapter 4: Gender Normal Future -- Chapter 5: "There is no narrative"; Childhood Disability, Queerness, and "No Future" -- Conclusion: Nothing About Them, Without Us -- Bibliography
Summary When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their experiences. The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future tracks the narratives that have emerged from the community of parent-memoirists who, since the 1980s, have written in resistance of their children's exclusion from culture. Though the disabilities represented in the genre are diverse, the memoirs share a number of remarkable similarities; they are generally written by white, heterosexual, middle or upper-middle class, ablebodied parents, and they depict narratives in which the disabled child overcomes barriers to a normal childhood and adulthood. Apgar demonstrates that in the process of telling these stories, which recuperate their children as productive members of society, parental memoirists write their children into dominant cultural narratives about gender, race, and class. By reinforcing and buying into these norms, Apgar argues, "special needs" parental memoirs reinforce ableism at the same time that they're writing against it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index
Notes This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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Subject Parents of developmentally disabled children -- Biography -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Parents of developmentally disabled children -- Biography -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Children with disabilities in literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century
Children with disabilities in literature -- History and criticism -- 21st century
Children with disabilities -- Biography -- History and criticism -- 20th century
Children with disabilities -- Biography -- History and criticism -- 21st century
Children with disabilities -- Care -- History and criticism -- 20th century
Children with disabilities -- Care -- History and criticism -- 21st century
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Children with disabilities -- Care
Children with disabilities in literature
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
ISBN 0472903039
9780472903030