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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

paperback – April 15, 1996
by Thomson, Rosemarie Garland
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ISBN-13: 9780231105170 ISBN-10: 0231105177
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
April 15, 1996
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×15.20×1.30 cm

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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780231105170.

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 Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin and Rebecca Harding Daviss 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.