Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and LiteratureColumbia University Press, 1997 - 200 pages 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. |
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Contents
Disability Identity and Representation An Introduction | 5 |
Theorizing Disability | 19 |
CONSTRUCTING DISABLED FIGURES CULTURAL AND LITERARY SITES | 53 |
The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows 18351940 | 55 |
Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe Davis and Phelps | 81 |
Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry Morrison and Lorde | 103 |
From Pathology to Identity | 135 |
Notes | 139 |
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