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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

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Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0231105177
ISBN13: 9780231105170
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 6 1997
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, revising oppressive narratives and revealing liberatory ones. The book examines disabled figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.

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