Reading embodied citizenship : disability, narrative, and the body politic / / Emily Russell.
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| Superior document: | American Literatures Initiative |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Literatures Initiative
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| Physical Description: | viii, 253 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism
- Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood
- The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War
- Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats
- Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest
- Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.