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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Corporealities.
Main Author: Couser, G. Thomas
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Corporealities.
Subjects:
People with disabilities > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.
Genre:
Biography
Physical Description:viii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.