The disabled child : memoirs of a normal future /
Apgar, Amanda,
The disabled child : memoirs of a normal future / Amanda Apgar. - 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability . - Corporealities. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
Open Access
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.
0472903039 9780472903030
10.3998/mpub.12221256 doi
22573/ctv33dkxnv JSTOR
1900-2099
Parents of developmentally disabled children--Biography--History and criticism.--20th century
Parents of developmentally disabled children--Biography--History and criticism.--21st century
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.
Children with disabilities--Care.
Children with disabilities in literature.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
HQ773.6
649.151
The disabled child : memoirs of a normal future / Amanda Apgar. - 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability . - Corporealities. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
Open Access
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.
0472903039 9780472903030
10.3998/mpub.12221256 doi
22573/ctv33dkxnv JSTOR
1900-2099
Parents of developmentally disabled children--Biography--History and criticism.--20th century
Parents of developmentally disabled children--Biography--History and criticism.--21st century
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.
Children with disabilities--Care.
Children with disabilities in literature.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
HQ773.6
649.151