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Title: | Disabilities and extraordinary abilities in science fiction |
Authors: | Callus, Anne-Marie Grech, Victor E. |
Keywords: | Popular culture People with disabilities in literature People with disabilities in mass media Science fiction Human body in literature Mind and body in literature |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Foundations |
Citation: | Callus, A. M., & Grech, V. (2021). Disabilities and extraordinary abilities in science fiction. Foundations, 140, 18-31. |
Abstract: | In his partly autobiographical analysis of the social construction of disability, the blind sociologist Rod Michalko deals with disability’s late arrival within the concept of social identity: Disability has existed as long as human life has existed but only recently has figured in human identity. It has generally been conceived of as something that happens to a person and thus as not a natural part of the human condition [...] it was understood as an ‘attachment’, as something extra that, for whatever reason, happened to a person. (Michalko 2002: 5) Likewise, Lennard Davis writes that disability ‘has been seen as eccentric, therapeutically oriented, out-of-the-mainstream, and certainly not representative of the human condition [...] But, how strange this assumption. What is more representative of the human condition than the body and its vicissitudes?’ (Davis 1997a: 2). The attitudes towards disability described by Michalko and Davis evince the uneasy relationship that most humans have with disability. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/99188 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSoWDSU |
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