an introduction to disability theory
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This document introduces disability theory, exploring whether disability is a condition or an identity and how it is represented in culture across various domains including literature, music, and politics. It discusses the historical context of the disability rights movement and critiques the harmful stereotypes associated with disability. The document also highlights the concept of 'narrative prosthesis,' where disability is often resolved by eliminating it, and encourages deeper engagement with the complexities of disability representation.
an introduction to disability theory
- 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO DISABILITY THEORY Julia Miele Rodas Lehman College Spring 2022
- 2. IS DISABILITY A “CONDITION”?
- 4. DISABILITY STUDIES CARES ABOUT HOW DISABILITY = IS REPRESENTED IN = = CONTRIBUTES TO = = MAKES = CULTURE Disability History Disability (in) Literature Disability Politics Disability (in) Music Disability (in) Art Disability (in) STEM
- 6. Django Reinhardt Franklin Delano Roosevelt Frida Kahlo Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf John Nash Hellen Keller
- 8. DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT Activists fought for continue to fight for equal access in everyday American life: • transportation • education • voting • public spaces
- 9. REPRESENTATION MATTERS Stereotypes cause harm even when they are “positive”
- 10. STEREOTYPES OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN CULTURE
- 11. STEREOTYPES OF BLACKNESS IN AMERICAN CULTURE
- 12. STEREOTYPES OF DISABILITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE
- 14. APPLICATIONS
- 15. DISABILITY AS STEREOTYPE Cultural Representations of Disability are (almost always) Symbolic, not Realistic
- 17. “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” Despite Tiny Tim's banalities - his “little crutch, and ... his limbs supported by an iron frame," his "God bless us every one!" his "plaintive little voice," and his being characterized by his bereaved father as "patient and mild" … there is yet another Tim, lurking beneath the tedious little cripple, a Tim whose identity might seem to contest the cloying goodness of his own outward manifestation. This subtle shadow of the Tiny Tim with whom all are so familiar has an "active little crutch." “Charles Dickens and the Uses of Disability” Julia Miele Rodas Dickens Studies Annual 2004
- 18. JOHN MILTON
- 19. NEUTRALIZING DISABILITY Storytelling that relies on disability as a site of conflict typically “resolves” that conflict by eliminating disability at the end. CURE or KILL David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder call this pattern “narrative prosthesis.”
- 20. WELCOME TO DISABILITY STUDIES …