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• catalog abstract "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. Extraordinary Bodies inaugurates a new field of disability studies in the humanities by framing disability as a minority discourse, rather than a medical one, ultimately revising oppressive narratives of disability and revealing liberatory ones.".
• catalog contributor b9738730.
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "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. Extraordinary Bodies inaugurates a new field of disability studies in the humanities by framing disability as a minority discourse, rather than a medical one, ultimately revising oppressive narratives of disability and revealing liberatory ones.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index.".
• catalog description "The disabled figure in culture -- The disabled figure in literature -- The gap between representation and reality -- An overview and a manifesto -- Feminist theory, the body, and the disabled figure -- Sociocultural analyses of the extraordinary body -- The disabled figure and the ideology of liberal individualism -- The disabled figure and the problem of work -- The spectacle of the extraordinary body -- Constituting the average man -- Identification and the longing for distinction -- From freak to specimen : "The Hottentot Venus" and "The Ugliest Woman in the World" -- The end of the prodigious body -- The maternal benefactress and her disabled sisters -- The disabled figure as a call for justice : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Empowering the maternal benefactress -- Benevolent maternalism's flight from the body : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- The female body as liability -- Two opposing scripts of female embodiment : Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- The triumph of the beautiful, disembodied heroine : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner -- Revising black female subjectivity -- The extraordinary woman as powerful woman : Ann Petry's The street -- From the grotesque to the cyborg -- The extraordinary body as the historicized body : Toni Morrison's disabled women -- The extraordinary subject : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- The poetics of particularity.".
• catalog extent "x, 200 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0231105169 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
• catalog identifier "0231105177 (paper : acid-free paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "813/.0093520816 20".
• catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Body Image United States.".
• catalog subject "Culture United States.".
• catalog subject "Disabled psychology United States.".
• catalog subject "Feminism and literature United States.".
• catalog subject "Feminism psychology United States.".
• catalog subject "HV 1553 T484e 1997".
• catalog subject "Human body Social aspects.".
• catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
• catalog subject "Literature, Modern psychology United States.".
• catalog subject "PS374.P44 T49 1997".
• catalog subject "People with disabilities Social aspects.".
• catalog subject "People with disabilities Social conditions.".
• catalog subject "People with disabilities in literature.".
• catalog subject "Popular culture United States History.".
• catalog subject "Sideshows United States History.".
• catalog subject "Social Perception United States.".
• catalog subject "Stereotyping United States.".
• catalog subject "Women in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The disabled figure in culture -- The disabled figure in literature -- The gap between representation and reality -- An overview and a manifesto -- Feminist theory, the body, and the disabled figure -- Sociocultural analyses of the extraordinary body -- The disabled figure and the ideology of liberal individualism -- The disabled figure and the problem of work -- The spectacle of the extraordinary body -- Constituting the average man -- Identification and the longing for distinction -- From freak to specimen : "The Hottentot Venus" and "The Ugliest Woman in the World" -- The end of the prodigious body -- The maternal benefactress and her disabled sisters -- The disabled figure as a call for justice : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Empowering the maternal benefactress -- Benevolent maternalism's flight from the body : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- The female body as liability -- Two opposing scripts of female embodiment : Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- The triumph of the beautiful, disembodied heroine : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner -- Revising black female subjectivity -- The extraordinary woman as powerful woman : Ann Petry's The street -- From the grotesque to the cyborg -- The extraordinary body as the historicized body : Toni Morrison's disabled women -- The extraordinary subject : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- The poetics of particularity.".
• catalog title "Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature / Rosemarie Garland Thomson.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".