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The Deaf Heart
Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and
letters home during the early 1980s, The Deaf Heart
chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey \"Max\" McCall, a Deaf
biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the
island of Galveston, Texas. Max strives to become certified as a
Registered Biological Photographer while straddling the deaf and
hearing worlds. He befriends Reynaldo, an impoverished Deaf
Mexican, and they go on a number of unusual escapades around the
island. At the hospital, Max has to contend with hearing doctors,
nurses, scientists, and teachers. While struggling through the
rigors of his residency and running into bad luck in meeting women,
Max discovers an ally in his hearing housemate Zag, a fellow
resident who is also vying for certification. Toward the end of his
residency, Max meets Maddy, a Deaf woman who helps bring balance to
his life. Author Willy Conley's stories, some humorous, some
poignant, reveal Max's struggles and triumphs as he attempts to
succeed in the hearing world while at the same time navigating the
multicultural and linguistic diversity within the Deaf world.
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Things not seen
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
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Seeing Is (Dis)believing: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Classification of Disability in The Trail of the Serpent
This essay examines the depiction of disability in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Trail of the Serpent (1860), which features a nonverbal detective protagonist. Braddon's novel elucidates, and contributes to, a taxonomy of disability that intersects with its nuanced class system, ultimately revealing the limits of both, despite its innovative portrayal.
Journal Article
Florence & Leon
Florence has a problem with her lungs and Leon, with his eyes, but after they bump into each other they find that a simple drinking straw reveals surprising connections between them.
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Uncanny Bodies
Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world.
Working from the premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on lesser-known characters—such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the Silver Scorpion—as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy. Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and scholarship in popular culture.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons, Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later, Lauren O'Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.
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Max the champion
Max spends his day dreaming about competing in world class sporting events, and when he and his classmates--some of whom are disabled--prevail in a soccer match, he imagines they have won the World Cup.
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Applying a Critical Disability Studies Lens to Young Adult Literature: Disrupting Ableism in Depictions of Tourette Syndrome
This project is an interdisciplinary endeavor to connect research in the teaching of English with Critical Disability Studies, an intersection that is crucial to disrupting ableism and creating more liberatory schooling and societal contexts that embrace broader notions of human differences. Invoking critical content analysis of five young adult novels that depict characters with Tourette syndrome (TS), we asked, how are various models for understanding “disability” invoked in YA fiction that depicts Tourette syndrome? How do these various models function to reinforce, complicate, or reconstruct in a more progressive way notions about human difference in YA fiction that depicts Tourette syndrome? We focused on one of the many pervasive tropes found within all five novels using the psychodynamic construct of splitting. In particular, we call attention to depictions of TS as embodying an animal—most often a dog—that splits off into the bad/dangerous side, usually subsumed within a character’s “normal self.” This trope can be seen as part of broader, historical discourses that have dehumanized disabled people, constructing them as “other” and subsequently rationalizing exclusionary practices. We advocate for and discuss ways for scholars and educators to continue integrating disability from the margins to the center in literacy research.
Journal Article
Disabilities and Stephen King's Detectives
Stephen King has repeatedly returned to characters with disabilities to explore what it means to be human, intersecting with King's under-examined forays into detective fiction. Although King's depictions of individuals living with disabilities remain problematic, his bestselling works offer fecund sites for ruminating upon the relationship between disabilities and detective stories.
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