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Extraordinary Bodies - 9780231105170
Un libro in lingua di Thomson Rosemarie Garland edito da Columbia Univ Pr, 1996
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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.
Extraordinary Bodies inaugurates a new field of disability studies in the humanities by framing disability as a minority discourse, rather than a medical one, ultimately revising oppressive narratives of disability and revealing liberatory ones.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Extraordinary Bodies
- Sottotitolo: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Thomson Rosemarie Garland
- Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
- Collana: Columbia Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Dicembre '96
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : American fiction 19th century History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism People with disabilities in literature
- Pagine: 200
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 152 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0231105177
- EAN-13: 9780231105170