Description
Book SynopsisTracks 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 cultural narratives about gender, race, and class.
Trade Review“
The Disabled Child is beautifully written, compelling, and greatly needed. This book is a tour de force, a thorough, in-depth, far-ranging account of the complex topic of parents’ memoirs about their children’s disabilities. Through an exploration of a great variety of autobiographies and memoirs, Amanda Apgar asks how people narrate or fail to narrate the normalcy of their children with disabilities. The book offers an important challenge to normative understandings of what it means to be a person.”— Amy Shuman, The Ohio State University
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The Disabled Child challenges and disrupts dominant assumptions about disability and invites new ways of thinking about the nature of belongingness and normalcy. It makes a valuable contribution as a text for scholarly research in disability studies and coursework for in-service professionals.”—Priya Lalvani, Montclair State University
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
