Great Responsibility : Rethinking Disability Portrayal in Popular Fiction & Calling for a Multi-cultural Change

This thesis is an occasion to examine how normalcy – as a phenomenon constructed in society and so not natural but human-made – is reproduced as a hegemonic ideal through oppressive portrayals of disability in literature. Many of the fictional texts I analyze reproduce the privileging of normalcy. I...

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Main Author: Minaki, Christina Georgia
Other Authors: Titchkosky, Tanya
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30113