Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one. The book examines disabled figures in Uncle Tom's Cabin and in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde as well as in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.
Preface and Acknowledgments Part 1. Politicizing Bodily Differences 1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction 2. Theorizing Disability Part 2. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites 3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940 4. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis and Phelps 5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde Conclusion: From Pathology to Identity Notes Bibliography Index
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English at Emory University, where her fields of study are disability studies, American literature and culture, feminist theory, and bioethics. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities, broadly understood, to bring forward disability access, inclusion and identity to communities inside and outside of the academy. She is the author of Staring: How We Look and the editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body.
A well-written and provocative beginning to a conversation about disability that is long overdue among scholars in literary and cultural studies.
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