Reading embodied citizenship
Russell, Emily, 1979-
Reading embodied citizenship disability, narrative, and the body politic / [electronic resource] : Emily Russell. - New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 253 p. ) - American literatures initiative . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) 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.
9780813549903 0813549906
Human body--Political aspects--United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Human body in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS374.B64 / R87 2011
813/.540935287
Reading embodied citizenship disability, narrative, and the body politic / [electronic resource] : Emily Russell. - New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 253 p. ) - American literatures initiative . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) 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.
9780813549903 0813549906
Human body--Political aspects--United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Human body in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS374.B64 / R87 2011
813/.540935287