Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / / G. Thomas Couser.
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| Superior document: | Corporealities |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Corporealities.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 204 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.