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. Apgar demonstrates that in the process of telling these stories parental memoirists write their children into dominant cul...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Apgar, Amanda, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2023.
Series:Corporealities.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746252606719
Table of 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.