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By Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone textual content of incapacity reviews, setting up the sphere upon its book in 1997. Framing incapacity as a minority discourse instead of a clinical one, the ebook additional intensity to oppressive narratives and published novel, liberatory ones. via her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis’s existence within the Iron turbines, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson uncovered the social forces riding representations of incapacity. She inspired new methods of taking a look at texts and their depiction of the physique and stretched the boundaries of what counted as a textual content, contemplating freak indicates and different popular culture artifacts as reflections of group rites and fears. Garland-Thomson additionally increased the prestige of African-American novels by means of Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde. Extraordinary Bodies laid the basis for an appreciation of incapacity tradition and an inclusive new method of the examine of social marginalization.

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