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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (Jan 1997)
ISBN-10: 978-0-231-10517-0
ISBN-13: 9780231105170
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Extraordinary Bodies 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.
1997 Choice Outstanding Academic Book
Chronicle of Higher Education “Nota Bene” feature book
"Provides complex answers to the puzzle of American images of disabilities from the nineteenth century to the present. This is a solid, useful book which all readers interested in the relationship between society and culture must read."
— Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago
"A well-written and provocative beginning to a conversation about disability that is long overdue among scholars in literary and cultural studies."
— Choice
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