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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature - Thomson, Rosemarie Garland
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Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one. The book examines disabled figures in Uncle Tom's Cabin and in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde as well as in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.

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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature 2017, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231183178

20th Twentieth Anniversary edition

Trade paperback

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature 2017, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231183161

20th Twentieth Anniversary edition

Hardcover

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature 1997, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231105170

Trade paperback

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature 1997, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231105163

Hardcover