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Author Apgar, Amanda, author

Title The disabled child : memoirs of a normal future / Amanda Apgar.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations
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Series Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Corporealities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
Summary When 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.
Note This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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Contents Acknowledgements -- 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.
Subject Parents of developmentally disabled children -- Biography -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Parents of developmentally disabled children -- Biography -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Children with disabilities in literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
Children with disabilities in literature -- History and criticism -- 21st century.
Children with disabilities -- Biography -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
Children with disabilities -- Biography -- History and criticism -- 21st century.
Children with disabilities -- Care -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
Children with disabilities -- Care -- History and criticism -- 21st century.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
Parents d'enfants atteints de troubles du développement -- Biographies -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Parents d'enfants atteints de troubles du développement -- Biographies -- 21e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Enfants handicapés dans la littérature -- Histoire et critique -- 20e siècle.
Enfants handicapés dans la littérature -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle.
Enfants handicapés -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique -- 20e siècle.
Enfants handicapés -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique -- 21e siècle.
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Children with disabilities -- Care
Children with disabilities in literature
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Other Form: Print version: 0472055690 9780472055692 0472075691 9780472075690 (OCoLC)1292975365
ISBN 0472903039 (open access)
9780472903030 (electronic bk.)
9780472075690 (hardcover)
0472075691 (hardcover)
9780472055692 (paperback)
0472055690 (paperback)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.12221256 doi
AU@ 000072969191

 
    
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