Extraordinary Bodies : Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature Paperback / softback
by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:16/12/1996
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- ISBN:9780231105170
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Columbia University Press
- Publication Date:16/12/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780231105170