| Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature Contributor(s): Thomson, Rosemarie Garland (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231105169 ISBN-13: 9780231105163 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1997 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 813.009 |
| LCCN: 96021998 |
| Lexile Measure: 1680 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.04 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |