TY  - BOOK
AU  - Apgar,Amanda
ED  - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),
TI  - The disabled child: memoirs of a normal future 
T2  - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
SN  - 0472903039
AV  - HQ773.6 
U1  - 649.151 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Ann Arbor, Michigan
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Parents of developmentally disabled children
KW  - Biography
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Children with disabilities in literature
KW  - Children with disabilities
KW  - Care
KW  - Discrimination against people with disabilities
KW  - fast
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index; Open Access
N2  - 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
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