Extraordinary Bodies
Book Details
Author(s)
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0231105169
ISBN-13
9780231105163
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#3,378,591
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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.
