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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism 23 2 “Marvelous and Very Real”: The Grotesque in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Wise Blood 59 3 The Uniform Body: Spectacles of Disability and the Vietnam War 97 4 Conceiving the Freakish Body: Reimagining Reproduction in Geek Love and My Year of Meats 131 5 Some Assembly Required: The Disability Politics of Infinite Jest 170 Conclusion: Inclusion, Fixing, and Legibility 198 Notes 207 Bibliography 227 Index 243 ...

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