| Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature Contributor(s): Thomson, Rosemarie Garland (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231105177 ISBN-13: 9780231105170 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $33.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: As the first major critical study to examine literary and cultural representations of physical disability, Extraordinary Bodies situates disability as a social construction, shifting it from a property of bodies to a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do. Rosemarie Garland Thomson examines disabled figures in sentimental novels such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and the popular cultural ritual of the freak show. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 813.009 |
| LCCN: 96-21998 |
| Lexile Measure: 1680 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.98" W x 9.01" (0.69 lbs) 248 pages |
| 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. |