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BL
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| Record Number
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706793
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b528982
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| Main Entry
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Couser, G. Thomas
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Couser, G. Thomas.
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| Title & Author
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Signifying bodies : : disability in contemporary life writing /\ G. Thomas Couser
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, [2009]
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, ©2009
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| Series Statement
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Corporealities
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| Page. NO
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viii, 204 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0472050699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 047207069X (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780472050697 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780472070695 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: the some body memoir -- Paradigms cost: disability and cultural representation -- Rhetoric and self-representation in disability memoir -- Double exposure: performing conjoined twinship -- Identity, identicality, and life writing: telling (the silent) twins apart -- Autoethnography and developmental disability: riding the bus with my sister -- Disability as metaphor: what's wrong with Lying -- Lucy Grealy and the some body obituary -- Life writing and disability law: undoing hardship -- Epilogue: the new disability memoir
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| Subject
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities-- United States, Biography-- History and criticism.
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People with disabilities, Writings of, American.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/92087
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| LC Classification
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PS153.P48C68 2009
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