Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Autor Michael Berubeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 1998
medical procedures, insurance guidelines, policies, and representations that surround every child our society
designates as disabled. In this wrenching yet ultimately inspiring book, Jamie's father, literary scholar Michael
Bérubé, describes not only the challenges of raising his son but the challenge of seeing him as a person
rather than as a medical, genetic, or social problem.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780679758662
ISBN-10: 0679758666
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 136 x 204 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
ISBN-10: 0679758666
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 136 x 204 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
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Notă biografică
Michael Bérubé is director of the program for research in the humanities at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is the author of five books, including Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics, and has written for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and many academic journals. He lives in Champaign, Illinois, with his wife, Janet Lyon, and their two sons, Nick and James.
Extras
We Americans argue about representation all the time: the representation of poor people in Congress, the representation of African-Americans in the wake of the O.J. trial, the representation of African-Americans who aren't represented by the best lawyers money can buy.
Representations matter. Our world, as William Wordsworth once put it, is that which our eyes and ears half create and half perceive; and it is because Wordsworth is right that we need to deliberate the question of how we will reprsent the range of human variation to ourselves. How we understand people with Down syndrome will become part of what it means to have Down syndrome.
In these pages I have tried to represent my son James to the best of my ability. Nothing I write will redraw a political district; nothing I write will change the chemical composition of Jamie's cells.
My job, for now, is to represent my son, to set his place at our collective table. But I know I am merely trying my best to prepare for the day he sets his own place. For I have no sweeter dream than to imagine that Jamie will someday be his own advocate, his own author, his own best representative.
From the Hardcover edition.
Representations matter. Our world, as William Wordsworth once put it, is that which our eyes and ears half create and half perceive; and it is because Wordsworth is right that we need to deliberate the question of how we will reprsent the range of human variation to ourselves. How we understand people with Down syndrome will become part of what it means to have Down syndrome.
In these pages I have tried to represent my son James to the best of my ability. Nothing I write will redraw a political district; nothing I write will change the chemical composition of Jamie's cells.
My job, for now, is to represent my son, to set his place at our collective table. But I know I am merely trying my best to prepare for the day he sets his own place. For I have no sweeter dream than to imagine that Jamie will someday be his own advocate, his own author, his own best representative.
From the Hardcover edition.
Descriere
When Jamie Berube was born with Down's Syndrome in 1991, he was immediately subject to everything that surrounds every child our society designates as disabled. Here, Jamie's father describes the challenges and joys of raising his son. As he follows Jamie through his first four years of life, Berube evokes the sorrow and exhilaration of watching this loving child struggle for a place in the larger world.