Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic by Emily Russell

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

The American Literatures Initiative

Emily Russell

264 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction literary challenging reflective medium-paced
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Liberal individualism, a foundational concept of American politics, assumes an essentially homogeneous population of independent citizens. When confronted with physical disability and the contradiction of seemingly unruly bodies, however, the publ...

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