Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

Type

Book

Authors

Rosemarie Garland Thomson

ISBN 10

0231105177

ISBN 13

9780231105170

Tags

Sports & Entertainment, Criticism & Theory, Movements & Periods, United States, Sports & Outdoors, Popular Culture, Sociology

Description

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. - from Amzon

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