Introduction -- Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism -- Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood -- The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War -- Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats -- Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest -- Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.
Ämnesord
Människokroppen i litteraturen (sao)
Human body in literature. (LCSH)
People with disabilities in literature. (LCSH)
National characteristics, American, in literature. (LCSH)
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
Human body -- Political aspects -- United States. (LCSH)
Amerikansk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet (sao)
Människokroppen -- politiska aspekter -- Förenta staterna (sao)