Disability as a Socio-cultural Construct

dc.contributor.authorSharma, Pratima
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-10T04:50:07Z
dc.date.available2021-08-10T04:50:07Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis thesis talks about the existence of physical or mental disability in literary discourse constructed by so called “able” that contribute in devaluating, stigmatizing those who do not meet the criteria defined by the able. My argument isthat, disability is not an inborn human weakness or a misfortune but a politico-cultural construct of the disability experience as such. Lucy Grealy in “Pony Party”,Nancy Mairs in “Carnal Act”, Barbara Rosenblum in “Living with an Unstable Body”,andVed Mehta in “Bells” frankly recount their experiences of what it means for them to be disabled.These texts seek to argue thatindividuals with disabilities may experience an existential crisis that may be triggered by the stigma related to having a disability, as well as by conditions created by disability itself.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/3962
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.subjectSocio-culturalen_US
dc.subjectsocietyen_US
dc.titleDisability as a Socio-cultural Constructen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Englishen_US

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