Reading Embodied Citizenship - Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic

Informationen zum Autor Emily Russell is an assistant professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Klappentext Drawing from major figures in American literature, including Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and David Foster Wallace, as well as introducing texts from the emerging canon of disability studies, Emily Russell demonstrates the place of disability at the core of American ideals. The narratives prompted by the encounter between physical difference and the body politic require a new understanding of embodiment as a necessary conjunction of physical, textual, and social bodies. Russell examines literature to explore and unsettle long-held assumptions about American citizenship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism 2 "Marvelous and Very Real": The Grotesque in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Wise Blood 3 The Uniform Body: Spectacles of Disability and the Vietnam War 4 Conceiving the Freakish Body: Reimagining Reproduction in Geek Love and My Year of Meats 5 Some Assembly Required: The Disability Politics of Infinite Jest Conclusion: Inclusion, Fixing, and Legibility Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Emily Russell
• Edition: Rutgers University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780813554518
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5451-8
• Pages: 264
• Thèmes: American Literatures Initiativ; American Literatures Initiativ
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit international, droit étranger