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

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland

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ISBN 10: 0231183178 ISBN 13: 9780231183178

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability. She encouraged new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body and stretched the limits of what counted as a text, considering freak shows and other pop culture artifacts as reflections of community rites and fears. Garland-Thomson also elevated the status of African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde. Extraordinary Bodies laid the groundwork for an appreciation of disability culture and an inclusive new approach to the study of social marginalization.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor of English at Emory University and the author of Staring: How We Look (2009) and the editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0231183178
• ISBN 13: 9780231183178
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200