200, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1997 da Columbia University Press.
Extraordinary bodies
figuring physical disability in American culture and literature
Rosemarie Garland Thomson: Extraordinary bodies (1997, Columbia University Press)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-231-10516-3
- Numero OCLC:
- 34876215
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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.
Argomenti
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- People with disabilities in literature
- Body, Human, in literature
- Body, Human -- Social aspects
- People with disabilities -- Social conditions
- Women in literature
- Popular culture -- United States -- History
- Sideshows -- United States -- History
- Feminism and literature -- United States