Extraordinary Bodies

副标题: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

ISBN: 9780231105170

出版社: Columbia University Press

出版年: 1996-4-15

页数: 248

定价: USD 30.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.