Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231183178ISBN-10:231183178UPC:9780231183178Book Category:Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Media StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCKHQS9HVX
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231183178ISBN-10:231183178UPC:9780231183178Book Category:Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Media StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCKHQS9HVX
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).
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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20th Twentieth Anniv Edition
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