The right way to be crippled & naked
the fiction of disability
First edition.
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Word Count
71,750 words, Guess
Page Count
287 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101941026354
- ISBN-139781941026359
- Library of Congress Control Number2016014303
- OCLC Control Number951854393
- Better World Books9781941026359
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27214619M
Classifications
- DDC813/.01083561
- LCCPS509.P58 R54 2017
- LCCPS648.D5
Description
"Welcome to the worlds of the disabled. The physically disabled. The mentally disabled. The emotionally disabled. What does that word "disabled" mean anyway? Is there a right way to be crippled? Editors Sheila Black and Michael Northen (co-editors of the highly praised anthology Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability) join newcomer Annabelle Hayse to present short stories by Jillian Weise, Dagoberto Gilb, Anne Finger, Stephen Kuusisto, Thom Jones, Lisa Gill, Floyd Skloot and others. These authors--all who experience the "disability" they write about--crack open the cage of our culture's stereotypes. We look inside, and, through these people we thought broken, we uncover new ways of seeing and knowing"--
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