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Signifying Bodies : Disability in Contemporary Life Writing.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472026593
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Signifying BodiesDDC classification:
  • 810.9/92087
LOC classification:
  • PS153
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: The Some Body Memoir -- 2. Paradigms Cost: Disability and Cultural Representation -- 3. Rhetoric and Self-Representation in Disability Memoir -- 4. Double Exposure: Performing Conjoined Twinship -- 5. Identity, Identicality, and Life Writing: Telling (the Silent) Twins Apart -- 6. Autoethnography and Developmental Disability: Riding the Bus with My Sister -- 7. Disability as Metaphor: What's Wrong with Lying -- 8. Lucy Grealy and the Some Body Obituary -- 9. Life Writing and Disability Law: Undoing Hardship -- 10. Epilogue: The New Disability Memoir -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: The Some Body Memoir -- 2. Paradigms Cost: Disability and Cultural Representation -- 3. Rhetoric and Self-Representation in Disability Memoir -- 4. Double Exposure: Performing Conjoined Twinship -- 5. Identity, Identicality, and Life Writing: Telling (the Silent) Twins Apart -- 6. Autoethnography and Developmental Disability: Riding the Bus with My Sister -- 7. Disability as Metaphor: What's Wrong with Lying -- 8. Lucy Grealy and the Some Body Obituary -- 9. Life Writing and Disability Law: Undoing Hardship -- 10. Epilogue: The New Disability Memoir -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?.

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