Fantasies of Identification. Ellen Samuels

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       Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race

      Ellen Samuels

      Fantasies of Identification

      Disability, Gender, Race

      Ellen Samuels

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Samuels, Ellen Jean.

      Fantasies of identification : disability, gender, race / Ellen Samuels.

      pages cm. — (Cultural front)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-4798-1298-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4798-5949-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Identification—Social aspects. 2. Group identity. 3. Identity (Psychology) 4. Disabilities. I. Title.

      HM753.S26 2014

      305.9’08—dc23

      2013042415

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      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: The Crisis of Identification

      Part I. Fantasies of Fakery

      1. Ellen Craft’s Masquerade

      2. Confidence in the Nineteenth Century

      3. The Disability Con Onscreen

      Part II. Fantasies of Marking

      4. The Trials of Salomé Müller

      5. Of Fiction and Fingerprints

      Part III. Fantasies СКАЧАТЬ