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| Title: | Bending over backwards : disability, dismodernism, and other difficult positions / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lennard J Davis |
| ISBN: | 081471949X (cloth : alk. paper); 9780814719497 (cloth : alk. paper); 0814719503 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780814719503 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-189) and index. Content: The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category -- Crips strike back : the rise of disability studies -- Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the discourse of disability -- Criminal statements : homosexuality and textuality in the account of Jan Svilt--eighteenth-century shipwrecked sailor -- Who put the The in the novel? L identity politics and disability in novel studies -- The rule of normalcy : politics and disability in the U.S.A. (United States of Ability) -- Bending over backwards : narcissism, the ADA, and the courts -- Go to the margins of the class : disability and hate crimes -- A voyage out (or is it back?) : class and disability in my life. |
| Description: | xii, 200 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category -- Crips strike back : the rise of disability studies -- Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the discourse of disability -- Criminal statements : homosexuality and textuality in the account of Jan Svilt--eighteenth-century shipwrecked sailor -- Who put the The in the novel? L identity politics and disability in novel studies -- The rule of normalcy : politics and disability in the U.S.A. (United States of Ability) -- Bending over backwards : narcissism, the ADA, and the courts -- Go to the margins of the class : disability and hate crimes -- A voyage out (or is it back?) : class and disability in my life. |
| Responsibility: | Lennard J. Davis ; with a foreword by Michael Bérubé. |
| Year: | c2002. |
| Publisher: | New York : New York University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2002005282; National Library: 101142137 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1553; Dewey No.: 362.4; Dewey No.: 305.90816 |
| Series: | Cultural front; Variation: Cultural front (Series) |
| OCLC No.: | 49576943 |
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