Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

200 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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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 abou...

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