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Extraordinary Bodies : Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. 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. 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. Garland-Thomson also elevated the status of African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde. Extraordinary Bodies laid the groundwork for an appreciation of disability culture and an inclusive new approach to the study of social marginalization.

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Author

Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231105163

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science, Fiction

Rating

4.19 / 5 (140 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14