Reading Embodied Citizenship : : Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic /

Reading Embodied Citizenship : : Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic / / Emily Russell.

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Liberal individualism, a foundational concept of American politics, assumes an essentially homogeneous population of independent citizens. When confronted with physical disability and the contradiction of seemingly unruly bodies, however, the public searches for a story that can make sense of the di...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Russell, Emily,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The American Literatures Initiative
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism
  • 2. "Marvelous and Very Real": The Grotesque in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Wise Blood
  • 3. The Uniform Body: Spectacles of Disability and the Vietnam War
  • 4. Conceiving the Freakish Body: Reimagining Reproduction in Geek Love and My Year of Meats
  • 5. Some Assembly Required: The Disability Politics of Infinite Jest
  • Conclusion: Inclusion, Fixing, and Legibility
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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