Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Author)
Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one. The book examines disabled figures in Uncle Tom's Cabin and in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde as well as in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations
9780231105170, 9780231105163, 0231105177, 0231105169
73999041
Preface and Acknowledgments Part 1. Politicizing Bodily Differences 1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction 2. Theorizing Disability Part 2. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites 3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940 4. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis and Phelps 5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde Conclusion: From Pathology to Identity Notes Bibliography Index
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