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Life Writing and Persons with Disabilities  
How early autobiographies discuss persons with disabilities and how the Persons with Disabilities Act changed life writing. Nancy Mairs's "On Being a Cripple." Michael Bérubé's Life As We Know It, about his son who was born with Down Syndrome and about the social assumptions about disabilities. Jorge Luis Borges's blindness and his writing.
Program 99
  Participants
Carlos Alonso
Michael Bérubé
Nancy Mairs

 

 
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