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Extraordinary bodies :

0231105169

0231105177

9780231105163

9780231105170

b711999

Extraordinary bodies :

[Book]

figuring physical disability in American culture and literature /

Rosemarie Garland Thomson.

New York :

Columbia University Press,

©1997.

x, 200 pages :

illustrations, portraits, charts ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index.

The disabled figure in culture -- The disabled figure in literature -- The gap between representation and reality -- An overview and a manifesto -- Feminist theory, the body, and the disabled figure -- Sociocultural analyses of the extraordinary body -- The disabled figure and the ideology of liberal individualism -- The disabled figure and the problem of work -- The spectacle of the extraordinary body -- Constituting the average man -- Identification and the longing for distinction -- From freak to specimen : "The Hottentot Venus" and "The Ugliest Woman in the World" -- The end of the prodigious body -- The maternal benefactress and her disabled sisters -- The disabled figure as a call for justice : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Empowering the maternal benefactress -- Benevolent maternalism's flight from the body : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- The female body as liability -- Two opposing scripts of female embodiment : Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- The triumph of the beautiful, disembodied heroine : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner -- Revising black female subjectivity -- The extraordinary woman as powerful woman : Ann Petry's The street -- From the grotesque to the cyborg -- The extraordinary body as the historicized body : Toni Morrison's disabled women -- The extraordinary subject : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- The poetics of particularity.

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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.

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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Feminism and literature-- United States.

Human body in literature.

Human body-- Social aspects.

People with disabilities in literature.

People with disabilities-- Social conditions.

Popular culture-- United States-- History.

Sideshows-- United States-- History.

Women in literature.

Body Image.

Culture.

Disabled Persons-- psychology.

Feminism-- psychology

Literature, Modern-- psychology

Social Perception.

Stereotyping.

Attractions (Spectacles)-- États-Unis-- Histoire.

Corps humain-- Aspect social.

Corps humain dans la littérature.

Culture populaire-- États-Unis-- Histoire.

Féminisme et littérature-- États-Unis.

Femmes dans la littérature.

Handicapés-- Conditions sociales.

Handicapés dans la littérature.

Roman américain-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

American fiction.

Feminism and literature-- United States.

Feminism and literature.

Human body in literature.

Human body in literature.

Human body-- Social aspects.

Human body-- Social aspects.

Körperbehinderung

Körperbehinderung

Literatur

People with disabilities in literature.

People with disabilities in literature.

People with disabilities-- Social conditions.

People with disabilities-- Social conditions.

Popular culture-- United States-- History.

Popular culture.

Sideshows-- United States-- History.

Sideshows.

Volkskultur

Women in literature.

Women in literature.

United States.

United States.

USA.

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