Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing /
Couser, G. Thomas.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
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.
People with disabilities
People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
People with disabilities in literature.
Autobiography.