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Storytelling, Body, and Disability in Fiction and Popular Culture
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Storytelling, Body, and Disability in Fiction and Popular Culture

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2023) | Viewed by 12360

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Irina Strout

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Department of Languages and Literature, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK 74464, USA
Interests: 19th century British and Russian fiction; Victorian fiction; Romanticism; Gothic literature; fairy tales; folklore and mythology; gender roles; war fiction

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The individual body performatively constitutes its gender, experiences desire for other (individual) bodies, undergoes significant changes, and functions as the battlefield for a range of social and political struggles. However, the collective body in groups provides an equally productive basis for the analysis and interpretation of gendered and sexual processes. The human body is never neutral, and many works of fiction give meaning to a disintegrated, disable, diseased, wounded, damaged, mutilated body through the power of language.

For this Special Issue, we seek papers on all aspects of body, storytelling, and disability: in lived experiences, in public discourse, in popular media, in rhetoric of health and wellness, in educational institutions, and in built environments. We are open to submissions from researchers that consider their work from intersectional and intertextual perspectives.

Subtopics:

  • Construction and representation of the body.
  • Modernity and the body.
  • Body positivity in fiction, popular culture, and media.
  • Body politic, society, biopolitics, and state.
  • Body in cyber-culture and cyberspaces.
  • Body and medical sciences.
  • Body as resistance.
  • Body, film, and the visual arts.
  • Gendering the body, hyper masculinity, the female body, and LGBTIQA+.
  • Dis/ability and caregiving.
  • Genocide and the body.
  • The body as a performance.
  • The body as transformation.
  • Body inclusivity and creativity.

Dr. Irina Strout
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • body
  • disability
  • storytelling
  • gender studies
  • race
  • sexuality
  • class
  • identity
  • crisis
  • fiction
  • popular culture

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Jane Austen’s Persuasion: Finding Companionate Marriage through Sickness and Health
by Maureen Johnson
Humanities 2023, 12(5), 114; https://doi.org/10.3390/h12050114 - 10 Oct 2023
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In Jane Austen’s last novel Persuasion (1817), embodiment and disability function metonymically to show the emotional suffering of its characters. Austen gives temporary impairments to the novel’s protagonists, Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, and physical disabilities to minor characters who suffer actual [...] Read more.
In Jane Austen’s last novel Persuasion (1817), embodiment and disability function metonymically to show the emotional suffering of its characters. Austen gives temporary impairments to the novel’s protagonists, Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, and physical disabilities to minor characters who suffer actual and metaphorical falls, such as Louisa Musgrove and Mrs. Smith. In Persuasion, Austen evokes pain and suffering in both mental and physical ways, with men, like Wentworth, experiencing mental impairments and women, like Anne, Louisa, and Mrs. Smith, experiencing physical impairments. Austen uses impairments, illness, and disability as prostheses to highlight the importance of a marriage of respect, affection, and rationality. Full article
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Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White
by Drumlin N. M. Crape
Humanities 2023, 12(4), 64; https://doi.org/10.3390/h12040064 - 13 Jul 2023
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Responding to ableist and regimented notions of time, disabled activists and disability studies scholars alike have embraced “crip time” as a modality that better accounts for the ways disability transforms chronology. By applying this critical disability framework to depictions of time in Victorian [...] Read more.
Responding to ableist and regimented notions of time, disabled activists and disability studies scholars alike have embraced “crip time” as a modality that better accounts for the ways disability transforms chronology. By applying this critical disability framework to depictions of time in Victorian literature, my paper reveals the generative potential of nonnormative understandings of time in two foundational and widely studied texts: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White. In each text, the presence of disability allows for the resistance to and subversion of hegemonic (and genre-based) modes of temporality. Full article
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Unveiling the Oppressed Body: Female Dalit Body Politics in India through Baburao Bagul and Yashica Dutt
by Bianca Cherechés
Humanities 2023, 12(4), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/h12040063 - 12 Jul 2023
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India’s complex social fabric is marked by a rigid caste system that has perpetuated discrimination and marginalisation for centuries. The caste structure not only establishes clear boundaries between castes through endogamous social relations, but also determines control over resources, productivity, and sexuality. Among [...] Read more.
India’s complex social fabric is marked by a rigid caste system that has perpetuated discrimination and marginalisation for centuries. The caste structure not only establishes clear boundaries between castes through endogamous social relations, but also determines control over resources, productivity, and sexuality. Among the most vulnerable groups within this hierarchical structure are Dalit women, who face compounded forms of oppression due to their caste and gender, spanning economic, physical, and mental aspects. At the core of this oppression lies the Dalit woman’s body, a battleground where power dynamics intersect and the struggle for autonomy and dignity unfolds. This paper delves into the exploration of female Dalit body politics in India, with a particular focus on two influential literary works: Baburao Bagul’s When I Hid My Caste (2018) and Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit (2019). The aim is to unveil, through these texts, the intersectionality of caste and gender, both past and present, revealing the violence, exploitation, and marginalisation that reflects on the Dalit female body, stemming from and affecting the economic, physical, and psychological dimension. Full article
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