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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Columbia University Press (1997)
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Rosemarie Garland Thomson examines disabled figures in sentimental novels such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.Author's Profile
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