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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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As the first major critical study to examine literary and cultural representations of physical disability, Extraordinary Bodies situates disability as a social construction, shifting it from a property of bodies to a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do. Rosemarie Garland Thomson examines disabled figures in sentimental novels such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.

Language: English

Pages: 200

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Release: January 06, 1997

ISBN: 0231105177

ISBN 13: 9780231105170

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

4.1/5 ( ratings)

As the first major critical study to examine literary and cultural representations of physical disability, Extraordinary Bodies situates disability as a social construction, shifting it from a property of bodies to a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do. Rosemarie Garland Thomson examines disabled figures in sentimental novels such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.

Language: English

Pages: 200

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Release: January 06, 1997

ISBN: 0231105177

ISBN 13: 9780231105170

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