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Reading embodied citizenship disability, narrative, and the body politic /

Russell, Emily, 1979-

Reading embodied citizenship disability, narrative, and the body politic / [electronic resource] : Emily Russell. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011. - viii, 253 p. - American Literatures Initiative . - American Literatures Initiative. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism -- Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood -- The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War -- Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats -- Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest -- Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Human body in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Human body--Political aspects--United States.


Electronic books.

PS374.B64 / R87 2011

813/.540935287

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