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.
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A well-written and provocative beginning to a conversation about disability that is long overdue among scholars in literary and cultural studies.
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Provides complex answers to the puzzle of American images of disabilities from the nineteenth century to the present. This is a solid, useful book which all readers interested in the relationship between society and culture must read.
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Integrating disability theory and literary criticism,
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Rosemarie Garland Thomson has written a book that is groundbreaking and essential reading for anyone interested in the fields of disability theory, disability studies, and literary criticism. She has skillfully examined how the figure of the disabled body has been used in literature in different periods as a marker or boundary line for defining what the "normal" body is or should be. The disabled figure operates to displace anxiety from more "normal" folks, and in the process shows how what we consider to be normal functioning changes across historical periods and cultures. Thomson also compares the disabled figure to the cyborg, as both are figures that are not seen as "natural," and both are places/signifiers where we can then interrogate what the natural is, has been thought to be, and what it could include. This is an excellent book, and should not be missed.
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A treasure trove of informative details about "those" we prefer hidden from view. In answer to questions concerning unsightly beggars, fake mendiants, have been addressed to in a previous century.
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maternal benefactress, liberatory novels, normate subject position, benevolent maternalism, liberal selfhood, disabled figure, disabled characters, maternal benevolence, stigma theory, third designation, extraordinary body, disabled women, disabled body, extraordinary bodies, women with disabilities, disability studies, cultural otherness, disabled woman, liberal individual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Baby Suggs, Julia Pastrana, Harvard University Press, Joice Heth, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eva Peace, University of California Press, Iron Mills, Michel Foucault, The Dilemma of Difference, The Disabled State, The Silent Partner, Audre Lorde, Deborah Stone, Sartje Baartman, Susan Bordo, The Bluest Eye, Circus World Museum, Mary Douglas, New Brunswick, Princeton University Press, Temple University Press, David Rothman, Pilate Dead New!
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maternal benefactress, liberatory novels, normate subject position, benevolent maternalism, liberal selfhood, disabled figure, disabled characters, maternal benevolence, stigma theory, third designation, extraordinary body, disabled women, disabled body, extraordinary bodies, women with disabilities, disability studies, cultural otherness, disabled woman, liberal individual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Baby Suggs, Julia Pastrana, Harvard University Press, Joice Heth, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eva Peace, University of California Press, Iron Mills, Michel Foucault, The Dilemma of Difference, The Disabled State, The Silent Partner, Audre Lorde, Deborah Stone, Sartje Baartman, Susan Bordo, The Bluest Eye, Circus World Museum, Mary Douglas, New Brunswick, Princeton University Press, Temple University Press, David Rothman, Pilate Dead New!
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- The Disabled State (Health Society And Policy) by Deborah Stone on 8 pages
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison on 7 pages
- The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison on 7 pages
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison on 6 pages
- The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thorstein Veblen on 5 pages
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- Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination by Rachel Adams on 8 pages
- Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture by James C. Wilson on 7 pages
- Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act by Ruth O'Brien on 5 pages
- The Civil War Letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps by Charles F. Johnson on 4 pages
- Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture by Jennifer Travis on 4 pages
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