Couser, G. Thomas. <br/><br/>
Signifying Bodies :  Disability in Contemporary Life Writing. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (215 pages) 
 - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series .
 - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780472026593 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>People with disabilities - United States - Biography - History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS153 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/92087