03234cam a2200613 4500 1130189771 TxAuBib 20240123120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780472903030 0472903039 B0BN84SVBM Amazon 218557e3-fb66-431c-b83a-cce5aed52687 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9816012 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Apgar, Amanda. The Disabled Child [Libby eBook] : Memoirs of a Normal Future. University of Michigan Press, 2023. parents of children with disabilities. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. feminist disability studies. Literature and Medicine. disability life-writing. Settler Colonialism. disability studies. medical humanities. disability justice. childhood studies. sexuality studies. studies of memoir. Narrative theory. parental memoir. Gender studies. neoliberalism. Special Needs. Autobiography. the good life. queer theory. Crip Theory. disability. childhood. whiteness. feminist. queer. care. CRIP. HTML: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. <i>The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future</i> 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. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-01-23 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=218557e3-fb66-431c-b83a-cce5aed52687&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=218557e3-fb66-431c-b83a-cce5aed52687&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)