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Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic

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Emily Russell
2011
Published by: Rutgers University Press
Series: The American Literatures Initiative
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Reading Embodied Citizenship brings disability to the forefront, illuminating its role in constituting what counts as U.S. citizenship. Drawing from major figures in American literature, including Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and David Foster Wallace, as well as introducing texts from the emerging canon of disability studies, Emily Russell demonstrates the place of disability at the core of American ideals. Russell examines literature to explore and unsettle long-held assumptions about American citizenship.

Table of Contents

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Frontmatter

Contents

pp. v

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Introduction

pp. 1-22

1 Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism

pp. 23-58

2 “Marvelous and Very Real”: The Grotesque in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Wise Blood

pp. 59-96

3 The Uniform Body: Spectacles of Disability and the Vietnam War

pp. 97-130

4 Conceiving the Freakish Body: Reimagining Reproduction in Geek Love and My Year of Meats

pp. 131-169

5. Some Assembly Required: The Disability Politics of Infinite Jest

pp. 170-197

Conclusion: Inclusion, Fixing, and Legibility

pp. 198-206

Notes

pp. 207-226

Bibliography

pp. 227-242

Index

pp. 243-253

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