{"title":"Fracturing walls, not identities: The power of John Green's fully human representations of disability in The Fault in Our Stars","authors":"Amy Pearson","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13271","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>In my paper, I argue that young-adult author John Green recognizes the problematic ways conventional literary representations of people with disabilities contribute to the dehumanization of people with impairments. Furthermore, I suggest that Green's vibrant characters in The Fault in Our Stars and the connection readers have formed with them illuminate the power that realistic and, therefore, necessarily complex representations of characters with disabilities hold in transforming how people approach others with impairments, and, ultimately, how people with disabilities construct their own identities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Popular Culture","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.13271","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In my paper, I argue that young-adult author John Green recognizes the problematic ways conventional literary representations of people with disabilities contribute to the dehumanization of people with impairments. Furthermore, I suggest that Green's vibrant characters in The Fault in Our Stars and the connection readers have formed with them illuminate the power that realistic and, therefore, necessarily complex representations of characters with disabilities hold in transforming how people approach others with impairments, and, ultimately, how people with disabilities construct their own identities.
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The popular culture movement was founded on the principle that the perspectives and experiences of common folk offer compelling insights into the social world. The fabric of human social life is not merely the art deemed worthy to hang in museums, the books that have won literary prizes or been named "classics," or the religious and social ceremonies carried out by societies" elite. The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.