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Modern Literature

2022

Disability Memoir

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Claiming Ownership Of One’S Body Through Language: The Disability Memoir, Sarah Elizabeth Kaufman May 2022

Claiming Ownership Of One’S Body Through Language: The Disability Memoir, Sarah Elizabeth Kaufman

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This paper examines the ways in which the disability memoir creates pathways that generate new ways of thinking. Focusing primarily on the disability memoirs of Simi Linton, Ellen Forney, and Kenny Fries, this analysis will personalize the disability experience as these authors live it and redefine its social stereotypes.