Signifying Bodies Disability in Contemporary Life Writing【電子書籍】[ G. Thomas Couser ]

＜p＞"Thomas Couser's ＜em＞Signifying Bodies＜/em＞ comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes a 'life worth living' for persons with disabilities. Couser's work engages these debates by exploring the extensive number of personal narratives by or about persons with disabilities. As Couser brilliantly demonstrates through synoptic readings, these works challenge the 'preferred rhetorics' by which such narratives are usually written (triumphalist, gothic, nostalgic) while making visible the variegated nature of embodied life."＜br /＞ ---Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego＜/p＞ ＜p＞"＜em＞Signifying Bodies＜/em＞ shows us that life writing about disability is . . . everywhere. . . . From obituary to documentary film to ethnography to literary memoir to the law, the book casts a wide net, detailing how various written and filmed responses to disability both enact an．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る