Signifying bodies disability in contemporary life writing - Couser, G. Thomas (Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press, 2009)
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.
Keywords: People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; People with disabilities, Writings of, American; People with disabilities in literature; Autobiography