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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Paperback)

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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (20 Feb 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0231105177
ISBN-13: 978-0231105170
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 605,443 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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Rosemarie Garland Thomson is assistant professor of English at Howard University.

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