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Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / G. Thomas Couser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Couser, G. Thomas.
- Series:
- Corporealities.
- Corporealities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 204 p. :) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-07069-X
- 1-282-63909-9
- 9786612639098
- 0-472-02659-3
- OCLC:
- 649914289
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