Rewriting Another: Discussing Ethics and Disability through Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face and Ann Patchett’s Truth and Beauty

Vogel asks her students to analyze the dissonance between Lucy Grealy's portrayal of her own disability in Autobiography of A Face and Ann Patchett's ableist perspective on it in Truth and Beauty. She pairs Grealy's memoir with Patchett's as a way to re-think agency, the ethics o...

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Published in:Transformations (Wayne, N.J.) N.J.), 2014-10, Vol.25 (2), p.163-167
Main Author: Vogel, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Autobiographies
Biographies
Cancer
Deaths
Disability
Disorders
Ethics
Grealy, Lucy
Patchett, Ann
Rhetoric
Teaching
Truth
Writers
Writing
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Summary:Vogel asks her students to analyze the dissonance between Lucy Grealy's portrayal of her own disability in Autobiography of A Face and Ann Patchett's ableist perspective on it in Truth and Beauty. She pairs Grealy's memoir with Patchett's as a way to re-think agency, the ethics of life writing, and the rhetorical stare in life and in texts.
ISSN:1052-5017
2377-9578
2377-9578
DOI:10.1353/tnf.2014.0028