TY  - BOOK
AU  - Couser,G.Thomas
TI  - Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing
T2  - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series
SN  - 9780472026593
AV  - PS153 
U1  - 810.9/92087 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - People with disabilities - United States - Biography - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3414878
ER  -