Extraordinary Bodies Thomson Rosemarie Garland
Extraordinary Bodies Thomson Rosemarie Garland Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Through her incisive readings of…
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Extraordinary Bodies Thomson Rosemarie Garland
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson exposed the social forces driving representations of disability. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones.
Garland-Thomson also elevated the status of African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde.Extraordinary Bodies laid the She encouraged new ways of looking at texts and their depiction of the body and stretched the limits of what counted as a text, considering freak shows and other pop culture artifacts as reflections of community rites and fears.