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

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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 ...

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Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic 2012, Rutgers University Press

ISBN-13: 9780813554518

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Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic 2011, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813549392

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