Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997....
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Author: Rosemarie Garland Thomson
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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Thomson, Rosemarie Garland

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

CHF 65.73

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

CHF 65.73
Author: Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability. She encouraged new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body and stretched the limits of what counted as a text, considering freak shows and other pop culture artifacts as reflections of community rites and fears. Garland-Thomson also elevated the status of African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde.

Extraordinary Bodies laid the groundwork for an appreciation of disability culture and an inclusive new approach to the study of social marginalization.



Author: Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780231183178

About the Author
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor of English at Emory University and the author of Staring: How We Look (2009) and the editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996).

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