Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature - Rilegato

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0231105169 ISBN 13: 9780231105163

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English at Emory University, where her fields of study are disability studies, American literature and culture, feminist theory, and bioethics. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities, broadly understood, to bring forward disability access, inclusion and identity to communities inside and outside of the academy. She is the author of Staring: How We Look and the editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0231105169
• ISBN 13: 9780231105163
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 200