1. Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Domesticating the Exceptional: Those Extraordinary Twins and the Limits of American Individualism 23
6. 2. “Marvelous and Very Real”: The Grotesque in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Wise Blood 59
7. 3. The Uniform Body: Spectacles of Disability and the Vietnam War 97
8. 4. Conceiving the Freakish Body: Reimagining Reproduction in Geek Love and My Year of Meats 131
9. 5. Some Assembly Required: The Disability Politics of Infinite Jest 170
10. Conclusion: Inclusion, Fixing, and Legibility 198
11. Notes 207
12. Bibliography 227
13. Index 243