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Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Ser.: Disabled Child : Memoirs of a Normal Future by Amanda Apgar (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press

ISBN-100472075691

ISBN-139780472075690

eBay Product ID (ePID)16057254780

Product Key Features

Number of Pages214 Pages

Publication NameDisabled Child : Memoirs of a Normal Future

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectSociology / General, People with Disabilities

TypeTextbook

AuthorAmanda Apgar

Subject AreaSocial Science

SeriesCorporealities: Discourses of Disability Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2022-946760

Reviews" The Disabled Child is beautifully written, compelling, and greatly needed. This book is a tour de force, a thorough, in-depth, far-ranging account of the complex topic of parents' memoirs about their children's disabilities. Through an exploration of a great variety of autobiographies and memoirs, Amanda Apgar asks how people narrate or fail to narrate the normalcy of their children with disabilities. The book offers an important challenge to normative understandings of what it means to be a person." --Amy Shuman, The Ohio State University, " The Disabled Child challenges and disrupts dominant assumptions about disability and invites new ways of thinking about the nature of belongingness and normalcy. It makes a valuable contribution as a text for scholarly research in disability studies and coursework for in-service professionals." --Priya Lalvani, Montclair State University

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal362.4083

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Towards a Narrative Theory of Childhood Development Chapter 2: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and the Narrative of Overcoming Chapter 3: A Better Future Chapter 4: Gender Normal Future Chapter 5: "There is no narrative"; Childhood Disability, Queerness, and "No Future" Conclusion: Nothing About Them, Without Us Bibliography

SynopsisWhen children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their experiences. The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future tracks the narratives that have emerged from the community of parent-memoirists who, since the 1980s, have written in resistance of their children's exclusion from culture. Though the disabilities represented in the genre are diverse, the memoirs share a number of remarkable similarities; they are generally written by white, heterosexual, middle or upper-middle class, ablebodied parents, and they depict narratives in which the disabled child overcomes barriers to a normal childhood and adulthood. Apgar demonstrates that in the process of telling these stories, which recuperate their children as productive members of society, parental memoirists write their children into dominant cultural narratives about gender, race, and class. By reinforcing and buying into these norms, Apgar argues, "special needs" parental memoirs reinforce ableism at the same time that they're writing against it.

LC Classification NumberHV888