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Author:

Couser, G. Thomas.

Title:

Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

People with disabilities--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Corporealities

ISBN:

0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
047207069X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320188661

LCCN:

2009018643

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)