Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
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.
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