Signifying bodies
Subtitle: disability in contemporary life writing
By: G. Thomas Couser.
Series: Corporealities, discourses of disability
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780472070695; 9780472050697
Subjects: People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; People with disabilities, Writings of, American; People with disabilities in literature; Autobiography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the some body memoir; title: Paradigms cost: disability and cultural representation; title: Rhetoric and self-representation in disability memoir; title: Double exposure: performing conjoined twinship; title: Identity, identicality, and life writing: telling (the silent) twins apart; title: Autoethnography and developmental disability: riding the bus with my sister; title: Disability as metaphor: what's wrong with lying; title: Lucy grealy and the some body obituary; title: Life writing and disability law: undoing hardship; title: Epilogue: the new disability memoir.